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INDEX.
PAOE.
" Anp.ual Periods," or the "Process," Claudius Ptolemy Oil 265.
Astrologers, Modern Ideas of 49·
I Have Met ... 5, 31, 109.
,, Horoscopes of Modern (seeNativities)
Astrology, Influence of 29.
Astrology and Medicine 266.
Astrological Criticisms 259.
,, . · ·Societies 260.
Anomalies · no.
Astronomic Meteorology 19, 44, 89, 91, n5, ug, 135, 166.
Asterisms · 223.
"Aphorel's" Horoscope (seeNativities)
"Alan Leo's" ,, ,, ,,
Answers to Correspondents 72, 120, 168, 191, 28o.
Barnard, Dr .... 29.
Besant, Annie, Horoscope (see Nativities)
Bombay Astrological Society 84.
Cancer, The Sign 68.
"Casael's" Horary Astrology 70, 96, 141, 191.
Calendar Simplified, The ... 76.
Conjunction. of Neptune and Jupiter 257.
Death Figures ( see Termini Vitre)
Degrees of.the Zodiac and their Nature, The 268.
Degrees of Zodiac Symbolized 47,65, 86,152,275.
Declinations ... 48.
,, The Rationale of 253.
Directions, Lunar 60.
Directing, A new Method of 134, 192.
Elementary Astrology ... 236.
Epochal Figures 12,229.
Errata 58, 188, 238.
Exaltations 23, 43, 48, 72, u9, 170, 241.
Foreign Horoscopes, How to Cast 87.
Gemini, The Sign ... 25, 31, 86, 152.
Gladstone, W. E., Directions ' ... .. . ... 46, 178, 202.
Hindu Astrology 15, 37· 51, us, 131, 159, 172,205, 223, 243.
Herschel, The Planet (see Uranus)
Houses; The Planets' ... 170, 241.
Horoscopes (seeNativities)
· ,, How to Improve 1 97.
Infantile Mortality 6, 32, 55, 74, 95, 112, 120, 135, 145, 184, 199, 221, 246, 269.
Introduction to Vol. IV. 1.
Ingress, The ... 66, 130, 181,249.
Jonah, The Prophet. .. 22.
Letters to Editor ... 23, 48, 70, 93, u9, 141, 166, 1go, 214, 240, 262,263,282.
Lincoln, Abraham (see also Gemini Vitre) 96.
Lunar Directions 6o. ·
Luriations (see Mundane Astrology)
Magnetic Houses 247.
Map, When to erect a 43.
Moles, On . .. .. . 270.
Moon in Capricornus 126, 215, 240.
Mundane Astrology, 4, 41, 66, 67, 92, 108, 129, 130, 165, 181, 1821 212,
232, 248, 274.
,, Houses, Significance of ... 183,273,
,, Directions, Unreliable ... 28.
Mutual Reception 241.
Nadigrantham 37, 51.
Napoleon Buonaparte (.seeTermini Vitie)
. ,, III. II ,, . ,,
Neptune, The Planet 31, 241.
,, A Transit of 180.
,, and Jupiter, A Conjunction of... 257.
Nostradamus ... ••• ... .•. 99.
Notes on Recent Events 3, 17, 20, 22, 26, 30, 50, 61, 65, 66, 67, 75. Bo, 8,i., IOI,
rn, n3, n4, 134, 140, 171, 176, 208, 214, 220, 239,
245, 256, 26o, 261. 281.
Nativities :
"Alan Leo" 34·
"Aphorel" IO .
Besant, Annie 193, 258.
Byron, Lord .. . .. . . .. 97, 1 43·
Bombay Astrological Society ... 85.
Deeming 1go, 234.
"Future ," The ... 215.
Garfield, Abraham 250.
" Leo," (H . S. G) 81.
Olcott, Col. 217.
"Raphael" I2I.
Peculiar, A 174.
Patwardhan, D. B. 177, 204.
Stead, W . T. 98.
" Sepharial " 62.
Valiant ... 227.
Orbs, The Planetary 260.
Olcott, Col. (seeNativities)
" Positive " Houses 247.
Queen's Accession ... 28.
Personalities .. . . .. 73-
Photo Horoscopes:
"Aphorel" IO,
"Alan Leo" 34•
Boreham ... 106.
Leo, ( H. S. G.) ... SI.
Penny, R. H . ("Neptune") 145.
" Sepharial " 63.
Predictions by Ancient Astrologers 99·
Planetary •· Cycles, " or " Periods" 231.
Plague, The Great .. . 157.
Planetary Force 44, 56, 88.
Polarity, The Laws of .. . . •• 93, 120.
Process, The Examples of .. . 8, 33·
Profectional Directions (seealso the " Process") 124, 150, 265.
Prognostications from the Ruling Sign ... .•• 2, 58, 68.
Prince of Wales'" Directions'' .•. 27,219 .
Reviews ... . .. 36, 75, 134, 173, 235, 236, 280.
Students' Corner, The 18, 42, 61, 83, 114, 133, 187, 234,258,279.
Secondary Directions 8, 33·
Saturn, The· Spirit of 102,
Taurus, The Sign
Termini Vibe :
Garfield, A. 250.
Henderson 13.
Lady, A. ... 161.
Lincoln, Abram 42·
Napoleon Buonaparte 59·
,, III .. .. 79·
Tyndall, Professor ... 210.
Valiant, the Anarchist 227.
Transit of Neptune .. . 18o.
Uranus, The Planet .. . 83.
Zadkiel, The Blunders of 22v431 96, 97, 259,
Zodiac, Divisions of the . 243•
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A FEW remarks on issuing the first number of the fourth volume

of the Astrologers' Magazine will not, we think, be out of
place. We stated in our introduction to Vol. I. that we were
prepared to prove what we stated from experience, and which we
have, we think, concientiously adhered to. We have exposed
what we considered its fallacies, and also its probabilities and
possibilities, evidence of which we have given during the three
preceding volumes. Were astrology an "exploded science" as
many wiseacres deem it, how is it that the hundreds of predictions
we have publicly and privately made during the last three years
have come to pass? All these canriot be put down to mere coinci-
dences, no matter how these bigots may try to do so, and what
man has done, man can do.
The rules which we not only teach but practice are in the
hands of those who have the preceding volumes, and we have
no reason to doubt but that our future efforts will be as successful
as our past ones. We hope to make this volume more interesting,
if possible, than its predecessors, it will especially appeal to the
amateur and general public, whom we trust will liberally support
it, so that they may be induced to examine for themselves and
find from their own personal experience that it is what we claim
for it, viz., a true science; and that a knowledge of its laws will
prove of inestimable benefit, no matter in what sense they apply
its teachings.
One of the features of this volume will be photo-horoscopes
of most of those who have so largely contributed to these pages,
each endeavouring to the utmost of his ability, to place pur\;!
astrology before the world, and will form, we trust, another link
in the chain of many friendships that extend to all parts of the
globe.
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2 PROGNOSTICATIONS BASED UPON THE RULING SIGN.
Beginners will find something useful on page of cover facing

this, and should they meet with any difficulties in their studies,
if they will write us concisely and enclose stamped envelope, we
shall be pleased to help them in their difficulties as far as time
permits, and we cordially invite contributions of interest on
astrology from each and all, also fair and honorable criticism, so
that additional interest will be infused into our pages.
We most cordially thank our numerous annual subscribers
who have so ably supported us in the past and have no doubt
their co-operation in the future will be continued.
]Prognosticationsbaaebupon tbe 1RultngStgn.

(Continuedfrompage 217, Vol. III.)
No. IL-TAURUS.
P ERSONS born under this zodiacal sign are reserved, dis-

posed to melancholy, caution, self-dependent, headstrong
(not rash but stubborn), difficult to know, provocative of anger,
cynical, and disposed to quarrel. Love and hate linger long in
the heart of this subject, and though a faithful friend he may also
be an implacable enemy. The native is endowed with method,
thrift, caution, patience and diplomacy, and is sometimes a mis-
anthrope. The passions are strong and self-centred, the mind
capricious and wayward. Firm in religious and sentimental
views, difficult to turn aside from his beliefs or prejudices, and
devoted to his own conclusions. The subject of the sign is
frequently taciturn and abstracted, and sometimes has a defect
in the speech. He has the self-regarding and governing faculties
fully developed, and not unfrequently the native rises thereby to
eminence. Geography, natural history, horticulture and farming,
are predilections of the Taurean mind. The native is fond of
bodily comforts, and this in its morbid state produces hypochon-
driacs. He is hardworking, patient in researches and disposed
to tranquility of mind, but if aroused is a formidable opponent.
A man of few words but persistent action. Pensive, and generally
w.tlking with a stoop; appearing humble, but often ambitious
to excess.
PROGNOSTICATIONS BASED UPON THE RULING SIGN. 3
Losses will occur through the native's own fault, yet the ,
acquisition of wealth is fairly secure . Partial or entire loss will
occur through litigation or marriage relations. Unforeseen gifts
and benefits from friends will aid to make the position secure,
and legacies are not unlikely. The parentage of the native is
usually stronger on the father's side than the mother's, and greater
benefits are derivable therefrom. The father is frequently a man
of public position or gifted with superior qualifications.
The native has trouble or losses through sisters and brothers,
and will have relatives in connection with marine affairs. He
will travel, and if born during the day, the journeys will be pros-
perous and safe,otherwise not so. Children are few,and sometimes
dangerous to the interests. The first child will be in danger of
early death if a boy; or he may cause grievous trouble to the
native, from one cause or another. In this matter the horoscope
is not usually fortunate. Sickness will happen through overwork
and injudicious eating; the weak point of the constitution is in
the lumbar region ; the kidneys or reins are affected. The throat
and heart are also vital points. If the nativity be a nocturnal
one, dangers from fever and wounds are to be expected. In
marriage the subject is not happy. Quarrels and disaffections,
and sometimes divorce may follow.
The position will be elevated in the case of a nocturnal birth,
though difficulties will be experienced in early years. The industrial
arts, financial speculation, and dealing in property will bring
success; but not unusually persons born under ~ have a taste
for science and a. love for the library.
Friends will be of use to him, and generally he will find
females in high positions willing to befriend him, and through
such he will have success. Enemies will be found among medical
men and soldiers, and there is no doubt he will suffer from his
enemies wherever they are to be found.
Generally the native is fortunate, but subject to many perils,
which his star overcomes, and save through overwork or excess
in eating and drinking, he is likely to enjoy a long life.
On June 9th, Ford's Theatre, Washington, which had been used

as a pension bureau, collapsed suddenly, killing a number of people
in its fall. The Moon on that day was in square to Mars and in
opposition to Saturn, thus demonstrating the malefic nature of the
day.
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London.
F ROM the positions in the figure _forthe lunation given above,

we judge there will be much sickness during the month,
notable cases in the divorce courts, and scandals concerning the
fair sex. Finance will be on the whole good ; but chicanery and
fraud and the promotion of bubble companies will characterise
the month ; several defaulters on Stock Exchange, and notable
failures. The angular position of Saturn (ruling M.C.), and in a
cardinal sign, is decidedly ominous. Our colonial dependencies
require watching, as treachery is in their midst, and a revolt,
secretly fostered, is not unlikely. Illness will probably affect
royal circles, and the religious bodies will come in for obloquy
during the period ruled by the figure.
New York will have heavy bills of mortality; some notable
deaths; risky speculation this month; sudden troubles in the
higher circles of society; scandals in religious and literary spheres.
At St. Petersburg, the conjoined luminaries-Mercury, Mars,
and Venus-are in the seventh house, and it is wort,h noting that
two intercepted signs are therein. These positions are not re-
assuring. The probable outcome is decidedly warlike, and busy
times in the Colonial Office, and much exciting correspondence-
if nothing more serious-is imminent.
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3 bavemet.
I N our pilgrimage through life we come across those who have

in a greater or lesser degree, tastes or ideas in common with
our own, but those who profess a liking for astrology are rarely
met with, yet during the time I have made astrology a hobby
I have occasionally met with those whose hobbies are similar,
and of whom, from time to time, I hope to write about. As I
shall purposely refrain from giving names, I shall not wound their
sensibilities, and if what I have to say may make them smile,
they will know that it is not in the slightest degree exaggerated,
and it is published so that the many may read, mark, learn and
inwardly digest.
No. I was a strange fellow, decidedly ingenious with much
originality, but originality that might be aptly termed "misapplied
genius." He had been treated by the world like a football, but
at the time I met him had not brought to the surface the better
part of his nature, but I hope and believe that it has since mani-
fested itself. His astrological method was decidedly unique,
"putting a penny in the slot and having your fortune foretold"
was not in it. He unfortunately had not, through lack of means, the
opportunities of getting at many astrological books-he appeared
to "judge by rule." The following was his method :-He had
about a couple of hundred slips of cardboard that were ingeniously
placed in a pocket book under various headings ; one list com-
prised the significations of the planets in the various houses,
thus-0 in tenth, posts of honour,-which he had written on one
· slip ; 0 in eleventh, powerful friends-on another ; and so on
with the supposed effects produced by the 0 in the different
houses, all the extracts, by the way, being taken from Raphael's
Guide, Vol. I.
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He dealt with the other planets in the same way, the slips
relating to the various planets being kept distinct, as before
remarked ; another set had the effects supposed to emanate from
the fact of the lord of one house being located in another, thus:-
lord of the first in the second, wealth by native's exertions; and
the other set consisted of the mutual aspects of the planets and
their probable effects.
Having erected the map, he would place it before him with
the pocket book on one side and his hat on the other, and thus
commence:-
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If .st arose and 0 were in :::::in 5eventh, out would come the
slip for 0 in:::::, and also the one for the lord of first in seventh,
which would be pitched into the hat,and so on through the rulers of
the various houses, the planets' aspects, &c., &c., until the capacity
of the nativity (and, in a sense, the pocket book) were exhausted ;
from the information (!) thus obtained the delineation would be
written out. As will at once be seen, it was a very original method,
but alas! for the method, the result was not reliable, and not
worth the amount of time our friend had spent in getting his
material together in that form. As all students know, in some
cases the signs ruled by a certain planet may be on the cusps of
three houses, e.g., when the early degrees of ll1.is on the twelfth,
the middle of lll. will be rising and 'Y' will be on the fifth, all ruled
by er,hence the effects produced by the lord of twelfth, first, and ·
fifth, in (say the ninth) will not be harmonious, and may be entirely
annulled by other positions or aspects in the figure. Upon my
expostulating with him and calling his attention to these and
other anomalies, he indulged in a few mild expletives with a slight
tinge of local colour, and pitched his "vade mecum" to the other
end of the room.
This little brochure will shew students there are no " short
cuts " or " royal roads " to knowledge, and if they desire more
than a superficial knowledge of astrology they must begin at the
alphabet, and go on step by step-this is the true and only royal
road to astrology.
APHOREL .
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Bv "ALAN LEo."
O F all the difficult subjects hitherto presented to astrological

students, that of infant mortaltty may, I think, take pre-
cedence. Before judging a child's nativity the first thing one
has to consider is, "Will the child live or die ? " for if it will not
live then it is useless going into elaborate details as to wealth,
marriage, general success, &c., but this is just the puzzle-Will
the child be reared ? If not, When will it die? asks the student,
arid at once sets to work to apply the rules extant ; but what
rules? Are they reliable ? Oh, yes! One author says some-
thing about H ylegiacal places; but this is so vague that students
need some patience if they would find out what the author really
INFANTILE MORTALITY. 7
does mean that he so freely quotes, for although he gives some
·15 cases of children that died in infancy, in none of them does
he give the directions that produced the death, but gives the
radical positions only, and this is very funny when we find him
calling somebody else's theory an absurdity. But as this writer
does not consider himself a "modern " one we may perhaps for-
give him. The modern writer's absurdity consists of these
few lines taken from his Guide to Astrology, Vol. II., where,
speaking of the Sun, he says, " All you need do is to consider
the Sun, his wondrous life-giving powers, how, at his approach
to the zenith, a new life, as it were, seize~ all things, animal as
well as vegetable. Withdraw the Sun, and the universe would
be a blank, a vast catacomb of festering mortality. Any reason-
able person cannot fail to see this, and as the life is the preserv-
ing principle, even so should it be governed by the dominating
planet which is the Sun." Now every right-thinking person will
call this logic, and there are very few astrologers to-day who do
not believe it. It is generally considered that the Moon and
Mercury rule the first four years of life, but even this, like the
Hylegliacal place, is not satisfactory, for I know of many cases
where both these are heavily afflicted, and the child has lived,
when all known directions had been positively against its living,
and even Raphael himself says he knows of no sure rule on this
point when speaking of the life on page 57 Guide, Vol. II. So
we may pardon the student, who, having turned to all the writers
both "modern" and "ancient," gives up in despair.
My attention was drawn to this knotty point in astrology
soon after this magazine was started, for we had invited students
to write us when in difficulty, but it was only to find ourselves
on the horns of a dilemma. We pondered over letter after
letter, asking for the reason why this child had died, and that
had not died, and so on. It seemed hopeless to try and solve
these weighty problems, so we wrote our enquirers to the best of
our ability, and shelved those cases for a more convenient season,
until one happy day we hit upon a thought to advertise for
dead children, or rather their horoscopes, and so on page 519
Vol. II. appears our appeal to students and professors. The
former replied with remarkable promptitude, and to them I
return my sincere thanks, but the latter I presume have been
too busy, or are my fears correct that they are afraid the studen
will get to know too much for them ?
INFANTILE MORTALtTY.
The following is the outcome of a very careful investigation

involving a great deal of labour. I purpose giving as many
examples as possible of those I am convinced are thoroughly
reliable, stating the cause of death and showing the positions
for time of death with the directions, &c. that produced it. The
first case I shall give is that of John H., who lived three years
and ten months minus one day. Figure I repre;;ents the horo-
scope, the affliction in the map is Moon square Jupiter, Sun
semi-square M.C., Sun conjunction Saturn, and Jupiter (who is
lord of the eighth, house of death), is almost exact square the
mid-heaven, but the strong sign Leo rises, and the . chances
appear to be in John H.'s favour; but he died of inflammation
of the lungs, weak heart, and blood disorders.
If we add 1° on to the mid-heaven for each year of life
and 5' for each month we shall need to add 3° 50' to the
radical M.C. for the three years and ten months that John
lived. This will make the M.C. 6° 20' ~. If we look in
Raphael's Ephemeris we shall find in table of houses for Lat. 53°
25' N. that 6° 20' ~ on M.C. gives .st 21° 50' ascending. So
that Figure 2 will represent the progressive map and planets'
places; the only affliction in this figure appears to be the Sun's
having passed to the semi-square of the radical M.C. and semi-
square Jupiter. I should certainly never consider this sufficient
to cause death. (I am purposely leaving out the parallels).
True the Sun is lord of the figure, but he would be a bold astro-
loger who would say from this that the child would die.
But we have yet another figure which I think will show us
exactly what produced death, and this Figure 3 is arrived at by
the following method ; for every year of life 30° is to be added to
the ascendant or 2!0 for every month. This is called the "pro-
cess," and by it we find the ascendant to come out exactly 13° 48'
of :f for three years and ten months minus one day . The map
for this ascendant you will see by turning to Figure 3. Here
we find Saturn exactly opposite the ascendant. Jupiter, lord
of the eighth .in the radical figure, has passed into the eighth,
the Moon has become ruler of the eighth, and is sesquiquadrate
Sun, and if we fill in red ink the planets' progressive places into
Figure 3, we shall find Sun lord of radical figure semisquare
Jupiter, ruler of the eighth, or house of death. Note he died of
weak heart 0, and disordered blood 1+, and inflammation of
lungs 0 and ? in n .
FIGURE I.
John J. H.
Born 9-h. 5-m. a.m., June 5th, ~q
_ 1884, Liverpool. ;o0
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John J. H. Died April 4th, 1888.
d"< Inflammation of lungs, weak
~;<o heart and blood disorders.
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The " process " for time of death.
April 4th, 1888. John J. H.
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No. I.-" APHOREL."
I HA VE pleasure in presenting the nativity of my colleague known

. to the readers of this magazine by his occult name" Aphorel."
He was born near Berkhamsted, in Hertfordshire, on March 26th,
1854, rectified by " Sepharial's" method to 9-h. 36-m. p.m.
The meaning of his name " Aphorel " has hitherto been a
" sealed book " to all but a select few. It is an occult name
comprising six letters-" A," meaning masculinity, giving the power
of revivifying or regenerating, a source :-PH, the "Alpha," pro-
ducing or coming in contact with the "Omega" (fecundity), this
MODERN ASTROLOGERS,-" APHOREL," II
is not on the phenomenal but on the soul plane ; " 0 " the love
principle, connecting the masculinity and fecundating power with
the outer, and on the phenomenal plane, when it becomes the
medium and source of all the forces denoted by the" R," which
letter stands for force, ability, &c., exemplified in the horoscope
by 3 in Sl,-EL, divinity, the ultimate.
The nativity is a strong one. Born when the occult sign Scorpio
arose, Mars is the ruling planet in the fixed sign Leo, in conjunc-
tion with the eminent fixed star Regulus (Cor Leonis), on the
cusp of the mid-heaven, in "mutual reception" (also biquintile),
with the Sun in Aries in the fifth house. This planet will play
a most important part in the life's history;. the native will be
subject to scandal, but as the ruler of the nativity is so strong by
elevation, and in a congenial sign, it will render his calumniators
powerless to do him material damage. Three planets (the superior
ones), in fixed signs, and fixed signs angular, he will possess
great will-power and determination. It will be noticed that Saturn
is squared by Mars and also in trine to Jupiter. The former gives
him an implacable, unyielding disposition; one having this rarely
forgets injuries received, and invariably gives a " Roland for an
Oliver," but here we find it minimised, inasmuch as Jupiter lends
assistance by his trine to Saturn, and as Jupiter rules the second
and fifth houses, and Mars is in elevation, the native always over-
comes his enemies, and gains by their enmity. The scandal he
will experience emanates from persons connected with occult
or secret studies (astrologers), denoted by the secret planet
Saturn, . in Taurus, in the seventh (the house of public enmity),
squared by Mars. He is a true friend, but a bitter enemy.
He is quick-witted, keen, and at times intensely sarcastic,
and were it not for Jupiter's trine to Saturn he would be
too rash, as it is he is cautious, patient and persevering,
(note Mercury in Sextile to Saturn). His tastes are refined,
notice the Moon's aspects, highly impressionable, idealistic,
yet withal practital, sensitive, with a very retentive memory,
musical ability of a high order, he excels as a performer and
composer, the organ being the instrument of his predilection,
(not~ ~ 6. 2'), a church influence. In the nativity th~s ca_n be
traced to the planets in * and 'Y' and their aspects. He has a
great liking for surgery and medicine, which 3 cS Regulus favors.
He has decided ability for astrological and occult study, note
*
the aspects > W,> cS W,>6. asc., and the aspect ~ *
? gives
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him patience and perseverance with good judgment. He is

versatile, which can at once be seen by the numerous aspects
held and varied signs and houses the planets are in. He is
happily married, > first applied to * 2+, which also describes
the disposition of the partner. It will be seen the fourth
house is well tenanted, and the latter part of his life will be
extremely fortunate. Ever since the moment that I erected
"Aphorel's" epochal figure, I have been firmly convinced that he
comes very largely under the epochal influences, and for this
reason I also give the epochal figure for comparison with the
nativity where several striking characteristics will be noted .
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" APHOREL's"
In the N atus. In the Epoch.

Three planets in fixed signs. Three pfanets in fixed signs.
J ruler of asc.: on M. C. Jin M.C.
J opposed to ? . J semi-square ? .
Six planets angular. Three plants angular.
>and ? essentially and acci- >essentially dignified.
dentally dignified . 2+es~entially and accidentally
Lord of M. C. in a Cardinal dignified.
sign. Lord of M. C. in a Cardinal
Ruler of fourth angular. sign.
0 essentially dignified. 0 accidentally dignified.
That he may be long spared to assist in spreading a knowledge
of astrology is the earnest wish of his sincere friend,
ALAN LEO.
ttermtnua\llttre.-ben~eraon·amurber.
W E are indebted to our correspondent Mars L.R .C.P. for the

particulars of this murder, which took place near Middles-
borough, in Yorkshire. The murderer was a young man named
Harry Gould, a horse slaughterer by trade, who lived with his
father and mother in a miserable shanty on wheels. He had
been strange in his manner for eighteen months previously, and
had become a source of terror to the neighbourhood and of
trouble to his parents. As he was suspected of being insane he
was interviewed by a medical man, who went to him under the
pretext that he had a horse to be shot. Gould's rambling con-
versation soon proved his insanity, and on a report to this effect
being made, Police-constable Henderson was ordered to appre-
hend him and convey him to an asylum. Gould suspected this
intention, and armed himself with a gun, being a very good shot.
The constable and one or two others were cautioned that he
was on the alert and was dangerous, but they proceeded to him
with the intention of apprehending him. On Henderson
approaching _him, Gould lifted his gun and shot him dead,
whereupon he was immediately secured by the others present.
The wound was in the breast near the heart, the left arm being
also damaged.
The figure we give is erected for the time at which it is
estimated that the shot was fired. Venus ruling the ascendant
TERMINUS VIT£.
near the Sun signifies the occupation of the deceased, in govern-

ment employ ; and they are in semi-square to Mars, ruling the
seventh-enemies-and are in the seventh. Moreover they are
near the opposition of the middle point between Saturn and
Uranus. This middle point is 23 .o. 46; and the middle point
between the Sun and Venus is 22 'Y' 42.
Mercury retrograde in Aries, governing the mind and head,
is in opposition to Saturn, and therefore accords with the man's
insanity . As the opposition takes place from the sixth and
twelfth houses, this bears upon the fact that it was their inten-
tion to place him in confinement.
Perhaps some of our friends may like to notice the fact that
the part of fortune was on the cusp of the twelfth house, and in
opposition to the Moon.
The tenth house, signifying the authorities, was ruled by the
Moon and Sun. The Moon was proceeding to the conjunction
of Mercury (malefic because in opposition to Saturn) and to the
opposition of Saturn, and was cadent in the sixth house.
Our correspondent Mars L.R.C.P. sends the following notes
on the case :-
" Uranus in Scorpio denotes a short, thick-set body, broad
shoulders, ill-made hands, swarthy complexion, black hair and
eyes ; very malicious and deceitful, fond of drink, women, and
pleasure. This is Gould to a T. Scorpio is a watery sign, and
this affair took place near a pond, in fact there are several becks
and ponds about the place. Notice that we have watery signs
on the second, fifth, sixth, and tenth. Before Gould became un-
manageable, he used to seek pleasure (fifth) in shooting wild
ducks about the place ; and when he became insane he would
stand for hours at the water's edge at night, gazing and making
speeches to the Moon. The Moon is in the sixth, conjunction
Mercury, opposition Saturn, showing probable softening of the
brain. Saturn ruling the fourth, he will be incurable. An expert
in lunacy said that he would never be cured.
" Martial signs are on the second and seventh, and the doctor
(seventh) was associated with the relieving officer (second) in the
management of the case. The doctor strongly advised that
Gould's arrest should be postponed until the next day, when he
would be quieter. The lord of the seventh, on the cusp of the
ninth, shows that his intuitive faculties were at work warning him
to keep out of danger. The doctor left the constable after ad-
HINDU ASTROLOGY, 15
vising him and went home ; but the constable did not take his
advice, and instead of postponing the arrest, attempted to carry it
out forthwith.
"I should take Jupiter in Taurus, opposed by Uranus, to
represent Henderson's sad end, and the Sun to represent the
relieving officer, a big man 6 ft. 2 in. in height ; the Sun is part
ruler of the tenth. Gould's mother was in the caravan when the
affair took place, and was decidedly quarrelsome, opposing the
attempt to take her son away."
binbu :aatrolog\?.
V ERY little information is published, and still less -known to

English students in regard to Hindu Astrology. The
known reticence of the eastern nations in communicating their
knowledge to strangers may in some part account for this; but
it is also true that very few English or European astrologers
have paid any attention to Hindu methods. It has been a
matter of considerable pleasure to me to find that the Hindus
are very willing to communicate their knowledge on this and
other subjects to those whom they are assured take a real
interest in their sciences. At the present time I am favoured
with the correspondence and personal association of the fore-
most exponents of Hindu astrology, and find them as eager to
know something of our methods of prediction as I am to get at
the root of Aryan J otish.
I can state frankly that the Hindu method of Jataka (natal
astrology) and Prashna (horary) is more of an art than a science.
It is sufficient for them to draw a figure, putting the rising sign
or lagnam in any bahva (house), without regard to the natural
position of t~e zodiac at the time ; and from this as a radia they
ascertain the positions of the other signs by mere inspection,
and do not write them into the figure. In the same way the
planets' symbols are merely set in the houses which the signs
they are in are known to occupy; as if kanya were the lagnam
and ~ were in Capricorn (~), the initial letters of his name
(Shani) would be placed in the fifth bhava from the one occ_upied
16 HINDU ASTROLOGY.
by the lagnam. It is somewhat curious, however, that the signs

are counted from left to right. This is, no doubt, due to the
fact that during a certain portion of the year, viz., from the end
of April to the beginning of August roughly, the Sun is in the
north at noon, and not in the south as with latitudes north of
the tropic of Cancer. This would, of course, reverse t:he order
of the signs in the figure. No change, however, is made when
the Sun passes into the southern hemisphere. I am, as the
reader will have obseFved, speaking now of the Madras Presi-
dency, which includes the Tamul and Telegu ~ystems. A horo-
scope, as drawn by a Joshi of these parts, is a bare, meagre-
looking thing, with only one Rasi (sign), the seven "planets"
and Rahu (Caput Draconis) marked. Not a cusp indicated, nor
yet a degree of the zodiac to show exactly where in any of the
signs a particular planet may be. Is the figure one for janam
(birth) ? Then the Joshi will go ahead and tell you the phalam
(effects) of the figure. I have already said that with the Hindus
astrology is more of an art than a science, and it is at this point
th::i.t the statement is verified, for from such slender data the
most surprising deductions are made by a competent man, as I
have myself often seen.
On one occasion the Joshi of the Sivagiri Zemindar came to
me. We were perfect strangers, and he knew nothing of the
incidents of my life, nor indeed did anyone know some of the
things he told me. Merely measuring the time by my shadow,
he made a short calculation and then gave me the exact hour and
minute, by Greenwich mean time, of my birth, saying under
what planet I was born. He then went on to say that I was
born in an inland part of the country where my father's family
was not represented ; that I had left my 1t.i.tive place for educa-
tional purposes ; that I had lost a parent in my childhood ; that
an engagement undertaken at 23 had been broken off; that I
had lived in three places previous to my present residence; and
added various other information regarding the past and future.
All this was literally accurate.
If the figure is for a prasna (question) the J oshf will tell you
what you have come for, what your thoughts upon the matter
are, and sometimes will give you the name of the person
enquired about. In this branch of astrology the Hindus excel
everything I have ever heard of. As a rule they generally write
down a colour or word to be mentioned, or a part of the body
lilNDU ASTROLOGY. 17
to be touched, and in confirmation of what they have said they
will ask you to name a colour or word, and to touch a part of
the body, after which they ask you to look at the paper already
in your hands, and there you find the same thing.
Some Joshis carry this art to a surprising degree of perfec-
tion. While I was in the South of India I had the pleasure of
meeting a young Brahman with whom I struck a friendship at
once. It afterwards became known to us that we were born on
the same date and under the same lagnam, he in Tanjore and I
in England . This young Brahman sent me a chit (note) saying
that if I would compose or write from memory any two lines of
poetry he would reproduce them for me. I selected two lines in
English (of which language he knows only a few common words) .
This was at 4.15 in the afternoon. I did not see him again till
the evening of the same day, at about 9.30, when, without any -
thing more than a mental calculation, he wrote in Tamul char-
acters the two lines I had fixed upon . These have been subse-
quently read by several persons, and are pronounced to be as
accurate a reproduction as possible; and anyone hearing them
would detect only one or two defects in sound. These defects
are due to the fact that certain sounds in English have no
Tamul equivalents. ·
After seeing these results I cannot but think one of two con-
clusions must be drawn. Either the art is in greater perfection
among the Hindus, or the N irayana system which counts from
the fixed star Revati, is productive of better results.
In my next article on this subject I will communicate some-
thing about the famous Nadigrandhams and Bhimakavis which
exist in this country, and which are monuments of astrological
wisdom unparalleled in our records of the science .
SEPHARIAL
As predicted on page 276, the twelfth house and matters in con-

nection have been in bad odour, and on pages 256 and 257 similar
forecasts have been made . It will be fresh in the reader's recollection
that the treatment many patients at the various hospitals have received
has caused very caustic remarks to emanate from the Press, and the
same state of things continues. It is time the authorities of the various
hospitals exercised, or caused to be exercised, a little more feeling
towards those unfortunate victims of accidents whom necessity causes
a visit to our hospitals. The "Jacks in office" require more vigilant
supervision.
ltbe Stubenta'<torner.
BY "RAPHAEL."
" LEO
" says on page 284 :-" Any two planets that are in
exact declination are an equal angular distance from
the centre of the earth." But where is the centre of the earth ?
The earth being spherical, one may put a line around it in any
direction and call that the centre. But the earth's equator
corresponds to the centre of the ecliptic, and planets at equal
distances N. or S. of this imaginary line are considered in
parallel, it matters not how many degrees zodiacally they may
be apart. The main point to consider is what influence the
Parallels have. I am aware that in my Guides I have classed
the Parallels and Conjunctions together and considered the
former as next to the latter in power ; whether this is exactly so
I am not sure, because by experience I have found some
Parallels very powerful, and others of little or no account. And
in ·this they differ from the zodiacal aspects, as it is very rarely
indeed but that every aspect in a nativity leaves more or
less of its impress on the native.
" Leo" asks if I accept the usual rule that Declinations have
the same force and meaning as Conjunctions? I consider their,
meanings the same, but their strength or weakness depends
upon something I have not yet discovered, although it is prob-
ably regulated by the potency or otherwise of the planets in a
natus.
Looking at it from a Directional point of view I have found
most marked results to _followa P. of the 0 with '? or 2l- in
their extreme N. or S. Declination. In such a case a long term
of misfortune or prosperity is brought about, but even then the
intensity will depend upon the strength and positions of the
planets at birth. The influence of Saturn is not always evili nor
that of Jupiter always good.
A serious explosion took place in the Midlands on July 4th, and

many lives were lost. It may astrologically be referred to the lunatory
figure on page 257, for when Mercury, ruler of the fourth, had
progressed to the exact semi-square of the conjoined luminaries on this
date, the explosion occurred. Mercury had only just separated from
the square of Uranus in Scorpio (one of the "earthquake" signs).
Batronomtc
meteorolog~.
(Continuedfrom page 280, Vol. I II.)
"SEASON" INFLUENCEs.-These are the positions formed by Mars

( cJ) and Venus ( ~ ). As will be seen by the table, they are of very
irregular occurrence, both in the months and the years. Their
duration is also equally irregular; both features arising from thei
relative rate of motion being so near that of the earth, that travelling
together in "relative course action," their periods are not only very·
irregular, but in certain relative positions may only endure for a few
days, at others, be protracted over long periods, as the forty days of
Venus in April-May, and the thirty-five days of August-September,
and the same with Mars. In this we have the key to the philosophy
of the seasons and their anomalies. For it is the peculiar influence
of these two planets to gather the atmospheric circulation into
opposite concurrent "bells" of heat and cold, of drought and rainfall,
by the protracted existence of which the seasons are made or marred,
according as the positions shift about in the different months
and years. Moreover, in such periods the influence of these planets
"overlie," as it were, the ordinary "recurrent" positions of Mercury
and the other planets, adding such force and intensity to their
evaporative action as to cause the most sudden and violent reactions
on or just before the culmination of their positions, accompanied
with such extremes and depressions of temperature, pressure, and
downfall as may require the lapse of weeks ere the atmosphere regain
its normal season condition.
Another important effect of these Mars and Venus periods is that
of their influence, through the atmosphere, upon the "life" and
working of the human frame, obstructing and paralysing the ordinary
functions, and so causing all the various phases of epidemic disease
(as the late influenza, fevers, and cholera), the causes of which still
continue to baffle medical and meteorological hypothesis.
The better to apprehend and trace the working of these irregular
influences, they are placed in a separate column, with the number of
days and the dates within which the period of 5° of angular position
may be maintained.
INTER-PLANETARY PERIODs.-One more feature, and the description
of our " machinery " is complete. This is the occurrence of such
periods as those of April and May, wherein the long intervals of
twenty-four days are seen to occur without any position, the only
break being that of" transition" (x). Such "barren" periods are
of very rare occurrence, yet what have occurred have been in such
20 ASTRONOMIC METEOROLOGY.
curious relation to weather and weather theories as to be worth

notice. The most notable instance was that of February, 1855,
_marked by a barren interval of twenty-five days (Feb. 3-28), the only
break being the "transition" of 16th. The whole period was one
of intense cold all over England, and through France and Switzerland
to Geneva and Mont St. Bernard. Its non-relation to Astro-Meteor-
ology was commented on at the time by Mr. White, the Astro-
Meteorologist, as" the severest -February in the recollection of people
now living; and neither changes of the Moon nor planetary con-
figurations seemed to have little, if any, effect. The most intense
freezing, on the seventeenth night, was not under the influence of any of
the major planets, there being only a ) 8 ~ A further proof of
the effect is the month closing with a comparatively warm and brilliant
night under the powerful cold configurations 0 o J;,, which led Astro-
Meteorologists to predict the month to close with cold stormy snow
showers and fog! Hence we may fairly say the wind has made the
weather this month. But who can say why the wind blew easterly on
twenty-three days?" Observation and facts have since shown the
" reason why " of such periods, in the general absence of any
disturbing forces, and the remarkable coincidence of the "transition"
with the extreme of cold. A similar period was formed last November,
between the 8th and 30th day, with a general absence of disturbing
forces, heavy fog, rain, and storm prevailing on twenty -four days,
the (x) of 19th, the only unsettled and stormy period. As the con-
sequence of the continuous depression and humidity, another epidemic
of" influenza suddenly appeared in the Metropolis, two out of every
three persons being ill." Small-pox, also, broke out in London and
the provinces. In contrast, among other places, Madras was reported
for "an almost unprecedented failure of the November rains, causing
great injury to the crops." Under these circumstances, this "inter-
planetary period of 1893 will be worth observation, as both months
close with "linear" and "group" positions of remarkable intensity.
Such is the simple "machinery of the heavens," by the eccentric
disposition and operation of which all the varied phenomena and
anomalies of the weather and seasons are produced.
FREDERIC PRATT.
Valuable time is still wasted in the lower house over the Home
Rule Bill, but yet we think our prediction on page 256, will be borne
out. •
'Rotes on 'Recent£\lents.
On the 22nd June, 1893, about 3.30 p.m., H.M.S. Victoria was
rammed by the Camperdownand sank almost immediately, with the
loss of between three and four hundred lives. The disaster happened
off the Syrian coast, near Tripoli. The eclipse of April 16th last,
fell on the cusp of the ninth house, governing shipping, and at 26°'Y'50'.
At the time of the disaster, Mars was one degree from the square of
this place in Cancer, a watery sign, and the Moon was applying to
the opposition of the place of the eclipse. A figure for the time of
the event, shows 12° Scorpio, a watery sign, rising, with Uranus on
the cusp, the ruler of all sudden and unexpected events. Mars, lord
of the ascendant, the appropriate ruler of an iron war ship, was in
the ninth house in the waterv Cancer, and the Moon was on the cusp
of the twelfth, ruling the ninth, and applying to the square of Mars
in the ninth. The Sun was in the house of death in square to Saturn
and ruling the mid-heaven, hence signifying the death of eminent
men and disaster in high places. The Commander-in-Chief, Admiral
Tryon, was among those drowned. The ill-fated ship was launched
about 3.15 p.m. on 9th April, 1887 near Newcastle-on-Tyne. At the
time of launching, the middle of Virgo was rising, the Sun was in
Aries in the eighth house, in conjunction with Mars and in opposition
to Uranus, thus signifying the sudden and tremendous nature of the
calamity. The position of the Moon at the time of the disaster was
in opposition to that of the Sun and Mars at the launching.
The progress of the Home Rule Bill through committee having

been extremely slow, Mr. Gladstone, on June 29th, moved a resolu-
tion regulating the rate of progress of the bill by definite stages of
closure. The Moon was then at the full, Saturn squaring both
luminaries; the Moon was also on Mr. Gladstone's ascendant. The
planetary positions under which this bill began its course were not
altogether unfavorable, but the evil omens certainly seem to increase
as time goes on. Mr. Gladstone's directions, which we gave last
December, are rather unfavorable at present. On 22nd June, the
Premier explained to the House of Commons the financial re-arrange-
ments in the Home Rule Bill; the Moon was too close to the conjunction
of the malefic Saturn and the square of Mercury and Venus to make
the day an auspicious onf!. On June 16th, the result of the Linlithgow
election was announced-the loss of a seat to the Government ; the
Moon was in conjunction with Mars, and on the previous day, that
of the actual election, it had been in square to Saturn.
On page 257, in reference to the lunation, we predicted "Saturn

in the fourth afflicting Venus, will produce crime and attacks upon
women, some of which will be notorious." It is sad to have to
chronicle that there have been many attacks upon women and children
exceptionally brutal in nature; the murder of the woman at Rother-
hithe is one of the most notable, and the outrage upon the child at
Walthamstow may likewise be recorded.
22 NOTES ON RECENT EVENTS.
On June 25th, about 0-10 a.m., a woman of the" unfortunate"

class was murdered in Rotherhithe ; she was found in the street with
her throat cut. She had been heard screaming a few minutes before,
and her murderer was seen running away but was not arrested. It
is conjectured that he was a seaman from one of the vessels in the
Thames. Saturn and Uran us were both in the seventh house, and the
Moon was approaching the cusp of the eighth in Scorpio. Mars, Mercury
and Venus were in conjunction on the cusp of the fifth. For the part
of the body injured, the throat, we notice that the Moon is in Scorpio,
separating from conjunction with Uranus, and applying to opposition
of Jupiter in Taurus (governing the throat); Jupiter is also on the
cusp of the second house, signifying the throat .
So Palmistry has at last been declared illegal. At all events,

Miss Mary Gaines, a lady of good position, who practices Palmistry,
and gives delineations as " Merline" at her residence, was convicted
at Darlington yesterday as a rogue and a vagabond, and fined ros. and
costs for using subtle means-to wit, palmistry-to deceive. (Morning
Leader, u/6/93.)
Judging by the above, the authorities seem to be seeking" fields

and pastures" new; and the professional Astrologers will have the
Palmists as companions in adversity. Surely the prosecutors come
under the law of" conspiracy?" If not, it seems very strange to us.
What is the opinion of our legal friends on the matter?
JONAHIN THE BELLYOF THE WHALE:-This is an absurdity when

read as history, but not so as an astronomical cycle. "Jonah" is in
the constellations, and when that astronomical point which represents
man reaches a point in the zodiac which is directly opposite the belly
of Cetus (or the whale) on the other side of the circle by what is known
as the process of opposition, then Jonah is said to be in the centre of
the fish, and is " thrown out" at the expiration of the period when
that man-point has passed so far along in the zodiac as to be out of
opposition to the whale. Similarly as the same point moves thus
through the zodiac, it is brought by opposition into the different
constellations that are exactly opposite from century to century while
it moves along. During these progresses changes take place among
men and on Earth exactly signified by the constellations, when those
are read according to the right rules of symbology. It is not claimed
that the conjunction causes the effect, but that ages ago the masters
of wisdom worked out all the problems in respect to man, and found
in the heavens the means for knowing the exact dates when events
are sure to recur, and then by imprinting in the minds of older nations
the symbology of the zodiac, were able to preserve the record and the
prophecy. Thus in the same way that a watchmaker can tell the hour
by the arrival of the hands or works of the watch at certain fixed points,
the sages can tell the hour for events by the zodiacal clock. This is
not, of course, believed to-day, but it will be understood in future
centuries, and as the nations of the Earth have all similar symbols in
general for the zodiac, and as also the records of races long dead have
the same, it is not likely that the vandal-spirit of the western nineteenth
century will be able to efface this valuable heritage of our evolution.
-The Oceanof Theosophy.
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DEAR Srn,-A few months ago there was some discussion in

connection with the "dignities" of the planets, and I believe authority
was asked for the "exaltation degrees" given by "Raphael" in his
Guide, Vol. I. It was asked at the time if there was any proof
attaching to this subject. The answer, as far as I recollect it, was
a citation of Ptolemaic and Hindu authority. In regard to the latter,
it will be well to remember that the Hindus, using only the Nirayana
system, did not intend the same degrees as did Ptoleme, since the
latter followed the Sayan system. Moreover, if the observation of
these " exaltation degrees" is due to Mihira, it must be more than
1,400 years since they were fixed by the sage, and allowing for the
precession of the equinoxes, it is quite evident that the Hindu
authority cannot be quoted in favour of a modern use of the degrees
given by him, when applied to an entirely different zodiac. As to
whether the Aryans or the Yavanas, the Hindus or Greeks, are the
fathers of Astrology, or indeed whether the Yavanas (foreigners) are
" Greeks " at all, we need not discuss. Certain it is that the Hindus
are the modern custodians of the most ancient records of the science,
and also that their zodiac is not, nor ever was, that of Ptoleme.
SEPHARIAL.
DEAR Srn,-1 thank " Leo" for his explanation. Respecting

the moulding of the body around the Linga Sharira, if the Ego
controls this, what controls the formation of the bodies of animals,
an oak tree, herb, or even a stone ?
Again, if an Ego is unconscious on one plane, can it be conscious
at the same time on another plane ? for this is what the words of "Leo"
imply. I was under the impression that as a period of unconscious-
ness intervenes between Death and Devachan, so a similar condition
prevails between Devachan and Birth ; or in other words, when the
Devachanic period is exhausted, the Ego lapses into an unconscious
condition, to awaken later on in, or attached to, a house of flesh.
If I am wrong I am sure our learned friend will set me right.
RAPHAEL.
Srn,-It strikes me very forcibly your correspondent in June Maga-

zine signing himself " Candid "--like the pirates of old-sails under
various colours, or has more than one nom de plume. There is an indi-
viduality in some persons, that whatever nom de p!teme they assume
their personality is as clear as the noonday Sun. However, l car;
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.
not a rap who the writer is; I :;~ite without pay, and I deal with
facts. Now it is a fact that I was right in everyparticular, as his sister
will verify to any candid enquirer. I would not deign to answer only
for the sake of young beginners. As so-called " Candid" numbers
his objections I will do likewise. (I) As the ) is significator of the
querent and leaving ? , as I stated, a female-the affianced of the
brother-and also the lady 's own daughter, urged her to apply to
rrie. (2) As to his staying in England with perfect safety, for
"Candid's" edification, and proving the truth of my judgment, he
actually came back to England shortly before Whitsuntide, and visited
for three weeks, within six miles of the place where his transgression
led to his sudden disappearance, again proving the truth of my
assertion. As to i;;i afflicting heavily, I never saw it in one of the works
in the British Museum, and I think I perused all the books on the
subject. Lilly took little heed of it, and a more successful Astrologer
never lived, and I am content to be his follower. (3) If the figure is
taken for the brother, his ascendant, 23° SL then 23° ::::is on his
seventh ; as the lord of his first is almost on the cusp, I stated
America, which was another fact, and they are worth volumes of
theory. (4) Every writer states ~ signifies young persons, and as he
was placed in the brother's seventh, I unhesitatingly said a female,
which was another proof of the <;orrectness of my judgment, as his
sweetheart,.who obtains her.livelihood strictly mercurial, prompted him
to do so, fearing he would be prosecuted, so I think " Candid" will
not want a telescope to see the feminine influence, unless his jealousy
is before it. (5) In conjunction with J' 8 W,I took ) o W,lord of
ninth of the figure, and ? , chief ruler of his ninth, the eleventh of
figure, so I took the very houses he is quibbling over. The good old
Book says," Jealousy is as cruel as the grave," and I verily believe it.
July 3rd, 1893. EDWIN CASAEL.
Snewereto <torreeponbente.
AMATEUR.-ln erecting horoscopes for foreign parts, you must first

correct the sidereal time, and you will find the simple rule for this
on pages 33 and 34, Vol. III. In reply to your other query, the
planets travel or "progref!S" according to the order of the signs,
unless they are retrograde (Ii.), thus if ) was at birth in 'r she
would first progress or travel through 8, then through n, and so
on, e.g., in the mundane figure on page 256, the 0 is entering q;s and
is above the ascendant. He will travel first to d ? and then d
asc., but owing to the revolution of the earth he will be carried
successively through the twelfth, then eleventh, and then tenth
houses, until noon, when he will be directly overhead, after which
time he will culminate, and pass through the ninth, eighth, seventh,
sixth, and fifth houses, until at midnight he will be on cusp of the
fourth, although he will only have progressed to about q;s o 0 44'.
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GEMINI.
Persons born under this sign will be of an upright disposition,
obliging, courteous, liable to extreme of passion, quick to anger
but soon pacified, extravagant in revenge, running to great
lengths of wantonness under the influence of jealousy or anger,
yet disposed to unconditional repentance thereafter.
Persons born under Gemini are usually famous, whether
through science, invention, writings, travels, or oratory, to all of
which they are inclined, and in which they usually excel. But
whatever the occupation, the children of this sign generally excel
therein. In jurisprudence, negotiations, contracts, &c., they are
successful.
• The native will be just, noble, careful in his dealings, endowed
with finesse and knowledge of human nature. He will evidence
a practical nature, much application, vigilance, and patience.
The interests of others he may well carry by his addres~ and
speech, but his own affairs will best succeed when conducted
by correspondence and writings. He will have a strong will,
love of authority and precedence, and he will assert himself
firmly but without rudeness or tyranny. The liberal arts and
chemistry will attract his attention.
Wealth acquired by the exercise of his talents will be subject
to fluctuations, and the positions occupied by the native will
also be uncertain, and the native himself will be the cause of
these changes. The family of the native born under Gemini has
usually some secret which is carefully guar.ded. The native will
have some trouble through his father, and will probably be at
enmity or on cold terms with the family.
The progeny produced by this sign is usually numerous, but
it causes losses and vexations through the children. The
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26 PROGNOSTICATIONS BASED UPON THE RULING SIGN,
relatives of the father are not favourable. The native has

troubles through servants.
The complaints to which he is subject are chiefly epidemics,
fevers, affections of the lungs, bites or poison from quadrupeds
or creeping things. Public enemies will occasion danger and
affect his position seriously .
The subject of the sign will have troubles in love affairs,
remorse and bereavement, and, generally will have little success
with women. Nevertheless, the native may marry more than
once, or form several alliances. Enemies, although numerous
and varied, will be openly declared, and hence not so dangerous.
Towards the middle of life, the native will attract to himself
enemies under the dominion of Jupiter, magistrates, lawyers,
judges, or the clergy.· The betrayal of a woman is to be feared.
The native will be occupied in many things, and will, in con-
sequence, have numerous and widely separated relationships and
acquaintances. The native will have cause to fear his immediate
surroundings and those most nearly related to him ; his father
or mother-in-law will be dangerous to his interests. The native
will surely undergo dangerous adventures, and will come near to
destruction several times, but, by good fortune, will escape.
Generally, this horoscope pr0duces many changes in life,
proceeding from the disposition of the native himself. Under
this sign there is always some great and secret remorse, ancf-
sometimes danger of violence.
SEPHARIAL .
(To be conti1111ed
.j
The Siamese difficulty has chiefly affected France and her foreign
relations. On July 21st, with the Moon in conjunction with Uranus,
France presented an ultimatum to Siam demanding payment of an
indemnity for certain outrages and the fulfilment of certain conditions.
After a few hitches and threats of blockade by France, the ultimatum
was agreed to by Siam. There are many British subjects in Siam,
and the trade is largely British, hence our Foreign Office was active .
On turning to the figure for the summer quarter, we notice that Mars
was rising and that Saturn, ruling the seventh house (enemies) , was
in square to the Sun. The subsequent July lunation was formed near
the place of this Mars; and at the July lunation, Mars ruling the
seventh house, was in the mid -heaven, in square to Uranus rising.
In our last number we referred to the murder of an unfortunate
woman in Rotherhithe . Since then an Italian seaman has been con-
victed of the murder, and on July 28th was sentenced to death ; on this
day the Moon was in opposition to the place of Mars at the murder.
ttbe ~rtnce of 'Wlales'lDtrecttons.
ASTROLOGICAL students have been waiting for some

fi considerable time for Mr. A. J. Pearce to offer some ex-
planation of the failure of the definite prediction he made in
connection with the direction M.C. d 21-,which he has not yet
done, but a contributor (" N emo ") has at length undertaken
what it seems he had not the courage to do himself, and en,
deavour to account for the failure of the prediction, but even
"Nemo" is obliged to acknowledge that even" the rectified M.C.
d 21-51° 6' has now passed by nearly five months, and yet no cor-
responding event has occurred." This rectified M.C. and remarks
thereon will be found in Zadkiel's Almanac, 1893, pp . 53-4; and
in concluding his remarks Mr. Pearce states: ·" until another
event shall have happened, we are reluctant to decide on a recti-
fication of the time of birth of the Prince of Wales." The
rectified M.C. referred to above would give 26 :f 52 rising. This
utterance of Mr. Pearce gives the coup de grace to his advocated
mode of rectification, for surely the death of the Prince's father,
his marriage, and the numerous other events in the life of
the Prince, which ~re easily attainable, should be sufficient to
rectify this; yet still he cries: "until another event happens," etc.
Vide ut supra. My goodness! \Vhat more important events can
he desire than the death of a parent, or his marriage ? Perhaps
the event he desires is his death, which " Sepharial " significantly
referred to in Fate and Fortune, when taking him to task about
this very nativity. It only shows what we have often remarked,
that his "arcs of direction" are wrong, and of very little (if any)
use. What about past events, which have been referred to certain
arcs of direction, when neither the true ascendant or M.C. is
known to him? Perhaps he will kindly explain. We give
" Nemo·" credit for good intentions in view of" throwing oil upon
troubled waters," but we decidedly take exception to his remark,
which follows, viz.: "Mr. Pearce has been much criticised in the
A.M. for his prediction that M.C. d 21-would bring the Prince
to the regency or the throne; but the criticisms see1nto me unjust."
(The italics are ours.) Is it unjust to speak the truth? And can
" Nemo" conscientiously say we have uttered a falsehood or mis-
representeda fact? If so, we should be glad to know. We con-
THE PRINCE OF WALES' DIRECTIONS,
sider it our duty to expose astrological fraud, either in the act or

the intention, for if the promulgation of truth is our desire, it
must be done. Let us glance at the Prince's horoscope and see
what is likely to affect affairs. It will be found as calculated by
Morrison (Zadkiel I.), on page 9, Vol. I. of this Magazine. We
purpose taking the ascendant as rectified by "Sepharial," viz.:
22° 1 , which gives ~ exactly on the cusp. (Never mind the odd
minutes). This planet is therefore the strongest in the figure
(if being dignified and angular constitutes strength) ; and how is
}le aspected? \Vhy he is in close square to Uranus, and in par.
dee . with Saturn and Mercury ! ! ! The latter planet being in
close semisquare to Mars will act like that malefic, and although
Jupiter is in sextile with Venus, Mercury neutralises the good
effect that should come from the sextile, as he is in semisquare
to her. Be it observed that all these aspects are zodiacal and
not mundane (the fallacy· of mundane aspects is amply proved
by our contemporary in dealing with this nativity). Is it reason-
able to suppose that any good can accrue from a direction to the
radical Jupiter, least of all a "mundane one," when he is so
heavily afflicted in the radix? We unhesitatingly say that the
real affliction comesfrom Uranus squa.re Jupiter at birth, as the aspect
is so close, and by the system we use, Uran us will square Jupiter
(within orbs) throughout life, and so upset any expected good
from the greater benefic . We may be wrong, but we do not
think Mr. Pearce says anything about "orbs" at all in his Text
Book. It would be interesting to know his idea of the planetary
orbs. We must candidly confess we consider" Nemo's" defence
(albeit, done with good intentions), a weak one, and his remark
that "the special dignity promised was a natural one, as the same
direction coincided with the Queen's accession," ~oes not agree
with our opinion ; for the directions which we consider effected
this will be found on pages 84-5, Vol. III. of this Magazine,
but it was not M.C. o ~. This is a nut to crack for our contem-
porary, who styles us "half-educated professors of astrology, who
neglect true (?) primary directions, and rely solely on the almost
inert (?) secondary directions," for which we tender him our best
thanks.
APHOREL
( For self and colleagues).
moctor13arnarb
tbe"moon-finber
'' anbSstrolog~.
I T may be within the recollection of our readers, that Dr. E. E.

Barnard, of the Lick Observatory, Mount Hamilton, Cali-
fornja, has attained a certain amount of notoriety in consequence
of his discovering a fifth satellite (or moon) of Jupiter, besides
several comets. These discoveries pertain to astronomy, and
whilst he keeps to astronomical researches he is within his
territory, but when he talks, and lays down the law in a dogmatic
manner as to astrology, of which he clearly knows nothing, he
comes under the category of the man who-according to the
humorous Paddy-" opened his mouth and put his foot in it.''
It appears, from a leader in the Bradford Daily Argus, of 14th
July, 1893, that a representative of that paper had an interview
with Dr. Barnard, and in reply to a query as to astrology, he
.gave utterance to the following:-
" Astrology is humbug ; although astronomers were much
indebted to astrologers in the past, for maintaining an interest in
the study of the stars at a time when that taste would have died
out otherwise. But the suggestion that the astral bodies in their
movements exercised an influence upon human life, was," he
repeated, "the sheerest humbug."
Had he merely said, "in his opinion it was humbug," we
should have let it pass, as everyone is entitled to have an opinion,
but when he says," astrology is humbug," we not only differ from
him, but purpose to go somewhat closely into the matter; not
with the idea of converting the learned doctor, for he is, by his
own showing, both bigoted and dogmatic, and to that class of
people, to attempt to disprove their empty assertions is to " cast
pearls before swine," but as many persons are led by the nose by
authority, _it is our duty to check pernicious teachings. We will
take the doctor to task on these utterances, viz. : "that the astral
bodies in their movements exercised an influence upon human
life, was sheer humbug."
It is, we believe, an accepted fact, that the Moon influences
the tides, and also that man is composed of various elements, of
which water is one of the chief, if not the chief component ;
hence, if as we assert, the Moon does influence the tides, we like-
wise assert that she influences humanity by the same law. It is
also known and accepteJ as fact by all (or nearly all), physicians
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and doctors who have made mental diseases a speciality, that

lunatics are always worse at certain periods ruled by the age of
the Moon, and the term, "lunatics" (Luna-the Moon, "tic"
-disorder), is no fanciful or haphazard term for these unfortunates
who are so afflicted. J n the tropics, if persons sleep in the open
with the moonbeams shining upon them, they are frequently
afflicted with moon-blin<lness, a very serious disorder. Without
going further into the matter, we think we have given sufficient
evidence, which can easily Le verified by the veriest tyro, to prove
that the Moon does influence humanity.
Had we space at our disposal, we cou'd adduce a mass of
evidence in proof of planetary influence ; showing that the great
Plague of London, the various epidemics, choleraic and influenza
visitations, were so 1ely due to certain configurations of the planets,
but we think we have proved that the heavenly bodies d~ influence
humanity, and that astrology is not humbug. It is clearly
evident the doctor has not investigated astrology. He that
condemns any science without a practical knowledge of its laws
is a fool ; and he that know-3 facts and then condemns is a bigot.
Under which class does the learned doctor come? It would be
interesting to know whether he ever studied astrology, not super-
ficially, but seriously. One of our readers wrote to the Argus on
July 21, in defence of astrologr, and gave a list of those whose
names will live for ages, who believed and practised it; and no
assertion of Dr. Barnard, or any one else, can alter the fact that
the planets do influence mankind, and those who study astrology
sincerely, and apply its teachings to their own lives, will be con
vinced of its truths. They cannot do otherwise.
We predicted strikes from the figure for the July lunation, and on
July 28th, when the Moon was entering the fourth house of this figure
(governing miners and labourers) about 300,000 coal miners came out
on strike. This fourth house governs the earthy element and signifies
those who own land or who make their living out of houses or work
connected with the land. In the figure for the summer quarter the
fourth house was badly afflicted; the Moon and Saturn were both
therein in square to the Sun; and Mercury, lord of the house, was
applying to the conjunction of Mars. Here we have the indications
of the strike, which seems likely to cause disturbance not only to the
coal merchants but also to potters and iron workers and other occu-
pations ~ignified by the fourth house.
Sstrologers3 ba~emet.
N UMBER two was one of the greatest perverters of the

truth it has ever been my fate to meet. Plausibility was
his chief characteristic, and it stood him in good stead, as he
gained considerably by it from the unwary. He was a man of
superior education, whose weakness was rum, with two pieces of
sugar to the tumbler. He held several appointments in Her
Majesty's service from necessity, but he did not seem to be com-
fortable in them. He was a good astrologer, and was thoroughly
conversant with the Ptolemaic, Placidian, and Arabian systems,
but, like another modern authority, he did not really know what
his true ascendant was, for although he had rectified and re-recti-
fied it by the two former methods, he was not satisfied ; although
some events fitted certain arcs of direction, others did not, and
he came to the conclusion that the semi-arc system was mislead-
ing, unreliable, and, for practical purposes, useless, and decided
to throw them over altogether. He found that Raphael's system
gave far better results, with considerably less trouble and time,
and I believe he now uses this system entirely. He was a grea_t
believer in solar revolutions, and he once worked one out for me,
but, as I told him before he commenced it, I had no faith in it,
and the result proved I was right, for in my case the predicted
events, good days, etc., only existed on paper.
He had great faith in the planet Neptune, which he considered
feminine in nature; in fact, he said Neptunia should be the
correct name. He considered this plan~t's influence was as
malefic as that of Saturn, but in meteorology she raised the tem-
perature. His opinion on the entry of Neptune into Gemini was
that during the time this planet occupied the sign, London and
places ruled by Gemini would experience a series of disasters un-
paralleled in the pages of history, and that when Neptune reached
London's ascendant, something exceptionally dreadful would
happen. It will not be very long before that occurs, and it will
be interesting to note its effects. It should definitely settle
whether this planet is to be classed with the benefics or malefics,
but as he had closely watched it, and spoke with confidence begot
by experience, his opinion was valuable on the point.
APHOREL.
3nfanttlemortalit\?.
BY "ALAN LEo."
U NTIL debarred through want of space I intend giving three

maps to each case, so that I may fully illustrate the
various systems while ventilating this important subject. I am
not attempting to set up any theory of my own as to the cause
of infant mortality, but I am very desirous that each system shall
speak for itself; there must be a cause for every effect, and I see
no reason why we should not discover a cause for this perplexing
"up to date" mystery. My mind is by no means definitely fixed
as to the cause, and when these articles are finished I shall be
glad of a superior opinion on the matter to enlighten me, if I
appear to have given my verdict for a system that does not, after
these tests, carry the greatest weight of evidence in its favour.
My next example will be Elizabeth B., born in London,
September 12th, 1883, at II p.m. (see Fig. IV.) The affliction in the
horoscope is Moon in the eighth, house of death, sesquiquadrate
Saturn and opposition Jupiter, and Mars squares Mercury. Now
Elizabeth .lived nearly five years; so that, although by rule the
Moon governs the first four years of life, in this case it is not
borne out, and therefore may be dispensed with, yet the Moon,
as can been seen, is heavily afflicted and in her "fall," yet the
~hild lived beyond the period allotted to the Moon.
Figure V. represents the progressive map for time of death
(one degree being added to the radical M.C. for each year of life
and also shews the planets' directional positions). The M.C. has
now approached the square of Saturn, ruler of the eighth house in
radix and progressional maps, and Mars in radix is in conjunction
with the progressed ascendant. It evidently does not require
much to force this into action in this case; the Moon does not
set these influences in motion although Moon progressive is exactly
in square to radical ascendant, for she is applying by sextile to
Saturn, and it is only by Figure VI. that we obtain a solution to the
mystery. Elizabeth B., died on August 7th, 1888, of croup and
bronchitis; the process for this time shews Saturn opposite to
the processed ascendant of the progressive map (Fig. V.) Ten
minutes of ascendant only is wanted, but the birth time may be
a few minutes out, and the progressed ascendant ( Qo 12° 161) is on
the cusp of the eighth. It may also be remarked that Mars in
the radix is in the house of life, out of dignity, and in the process
map is exactly on the cusp of the house of death, and Mercury,
ruling fourth in the radix is squared by Mars, another fact worth
noting.
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No. II.-" ALAN LEO."
T HE subject of our horoscope, whose nom de plume is known

to astrological students all over the world, was born in the
city of Westminster, on 7th August, 1860, at 5-h. 49-m. a.m.
when the 27th degree of the royal sign Leo arose ; Saturn-in
conjunction with the fixed star Regulus (Cor Leonis)-being on
the cusp.
As will be seen, fixed signs hold the angles, and four planets
occupy the fixed sign Leo. Saturn is angular in the ascendant,
whilst the occult planet, Uran us, is posited in .the mid-heaven in ·
sextile to the Sun, Moon, and Jupiter.
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MODERN ASTROLOGERS,-" ALAN LEO:'' 35
As the majority of planets are rising, four being in the fixed
sign, Leo, he has the needful qualifications to rise in the world ;
and as the Sun-his significator-is in his own sign, disposing of
the others, he has the necessary amount of fire and energy where-
with to make his mark. In this he will be aided by Uranus. This
planet will greatly influence his career, and for his ultimate
benefit, as he is in sextile to the Sun (a general significator of
persons of position) ; to the Moon (representing the public, and
the female element), and Jupitet, (the mercantile world).
For his occult ability, we must refer to Uranus, who is in
sextile with the Moon, the latter in the ninth house (the house of
science), and as the fair Luna is in the fiery sign Aries, in trine
to the Sun, in the fiery Leo, decidedly evidences much energy in
this particular. The Moon has the aid of Mercury (also in a fiery
sign), by a trine aspect, and these positions alone impart good
deductive judgment, with keen intuitional and mesmeric power.
Some may say that Mars being in square would affect it, but, be
it noted, Mars disposes of the Moon ; yet, as the occult matter
rests greatly with Uran us, the aspects between Uranus and the
Moon being favorable, these powers are strengthened, and
reinforced by Mercury, and as this latter planet rules the second
house (also the eleventh), financial gain will accrue from such
sources, and likewise many friends and acquaintances of position
in life, whose tastes and sympathies are on these lines.
Saturn is on the ascendant, and in affliction with the Moon.
This will at times, especially under adverse directions, make him
decidedly melancholy, and also affect the health ; did he follow
out his astral indications he would always be more or less misan-
thropic, but with knowledge comes power, and he has by force of
the fiery nature and will-power inherent in him, almost, if not
entirely, subdued the moroseness that Saturn confers. Those who
have Saturn so posited are not easily understood ; they do not
readily express their views on any subject, in fact, they hear, see,
but say little ; yet, when they know the persons they deal with,
they speak, and what they have to say is said in few words, and
carries weight ; our subject is no exception to this rule. Venus,
ruling the mid-heaven, is in a moveable (cardinal) sign; Uranus,
in the tenth house, is in a "common " sign, and the Moon, who
disposes of Venus is in a moveable sign in the ninth house (the
house of journeys). From these indications, the avocations pursued
are those in which travelling is a feature, and the businesses
affected are those represented by the Moon and Venus.
36 'MODERN ASTROLOGERS.-" ALAN LEO."
The whole career has been emblematical of the planet Uranus.

The life has been a very eventful one-ups and downs, riches and
poverty, adversity and prosperity, have been characteristic of his
earthly pilgrimage. I may give an instance. From a very in-
ferior position, without influence, he was promoted to the man-
agement of one of the largest businesses in the city of London,
which position was as suddenly lost under ill directions; a fair
example of Herschel's influence when in the tenth house.
As will be seen from the positions, the disposition is a just
one ; a firm friend, a generous enemy; one scorning mean or con-
temptible actions; one who willingly forgives injuries, but rarely
forgets.
From the affliction of the rulers of the tenth, third, and fourth
houses, an argument is adduced that he and his relatives are not in
sympathy, and such I know to be the case.
I judge that he will benefit by legacies or by the inheritance
of the· dead, suddenly, and that he will gain by occult friends in
this particular is certain, which Uranus by his aspects decidedly
favours. From the satellitum of planets in Leo, and their proxi-
mity to each other, he will, ~under directions, have a succession
of what the world terms" ill-luck," and a corresponding amount
of good fortune when the directions are benefic. It is cheering
to chronicle his coming directions are powerful for good.
He will at times be prone to act on impulse ; in fact, more
from the heart than the head. This is not always wise, yet it is
not a serious fault, and many would commend it.
To sum up tersely, it is the nativity of a practical, keen,
observant, business man, with astrological ability above the aver-
age ; somewhat reticent ; one reliable and trustworthy _; sincere
in friendship; a lover of truth ; firm, determined, and persevering,
yet not bigoted ; broad in his views, and tolerant of others
opinions, and, in his disposition, reflective.
APHOREL.
The first number of Mr. Stead's quarterly, Borderland,contains; we

notice, one chapter devoted to astrology, written by Fitz~erald Molloy,
whose name is familiar in the literary world. We take this first number
of Borderlandrather as a promise of what is to follow than as accom-
plishing very much in itself. It will need very careful conducting if
it is to be anything more than a scattered record of mystical crazes.
The most interesting and valuable part of the present number is that
which deals with Mr. Stead's own personal experience. We strongly
advise our readers to keep up to date in occult matters by subscribing
to the Bordwland.
btntm Sstrolog\?.
THE NADIGRANTHAM.
I N my last article I promised to say something about the famous
nadigranthams of the Hindu Jyoshis. These monuments
of astrological and astronomical learning are attributed to several
masters of the science, some claiming for them the authorship of
Parashara, Garga, Mihira, and other great Rishis of antiquity.
Originally, they were written in a character call grantham, which
has certain numerical and symbolic value, similar to the masonic
and kabalistic alphabets. They are now to be found, however,
transliterated into the Telegu and Tamil characters, some of
them being translated from the Sanskrit into those vernaculars.
At the present time, one of the most famous of these works, the
Sukranadi, is being printed in Madras for public sale, but,
unfortunately, it is not in English. There are several kinds of
Nadigranthams, and a work ofa similar nature, called Bhimakavi.
The most common form of N adigrantham is written in
several volumes of palmyra leaves. It is said to contain all the
possible horoscopes falling within a particular yuga, or age, of
a manvantara. The year of the Kali Yuga in which a person is
born corresponds to a certain one of a sixty years' cycle. This
year is found in the book, and then the position of the moon is
found, together with the Lagnam, or rising sign, and when all
this has been referred to, the text of the Nadi goes on to give
the planetary positions and the effects of the horoscope.
It must be remembered that the Hindu astrologers hold that
only certain times during each- day can be productive of human
births. This has an interesting bearing upon the disputed
subject of the "epoch," and though tedious in its application,
would no doubt be productive of important results. I have
before me, at the present time, a horoscope taken from a N adi-
grantham, and written in Tamil. An English translation shows
that it gives the caste of the native, the circumstances of his
birth, the life-period of his father and mother, the number of his
brothers and sisters, his fortunes and the nature of his property,
his marriage and issue, several events connected with his pro-
fession, his character, and the time and nature of his illnesses
and death. A note from the native gentleman informs me that
all the particulars except one are correct. The wrong item is
the time of his second marriage.
It has been stated that many of these works are faulty as
HINDU ASTROLOGY,
regards the latter part of the life, or what to a young man would
be the" future," though with regard to the past, i.e., the events of
the first 20 years or so of the life, they are marvellously accurate .
It has. been advanced, in explanation of this peculiarity, that
the Guru himself had the writing of the earlier part of each
horoscope, and that he then handed over the work for completion
to one of his Sishyas, or disciples . Hence the delineation of the
first part bears all the marks of a master hand, while the rest is
more or less imperfect, according to the knowledge of the pupil.
The Bhimakavi is even a more marvellous work. There is
a curious legen~ in connection with this work. It is said that
Bhimakavi, "the widow's son "-a term of reproach in India ,
where the widow does not marry without becoming an outcast-
one day asked his mother what this taunting of his companions
meant, and why he was not admitted to the feasts of the village.
The widow explained to him the circumstances of his birth, and
he forthwith went away and undertook a long tapas (an austere
self-devotion to the deity) . By this means he gained the siddhi,
or power of prediction, so that all his words regarding the future
came to pass. He became a Rishi, and wrote a book which
bears his name, or, rather, his early cognomen.
I have had the advantage of seeing the Bhimakavi, which is
now in the hands of a Brahman, at Shiyali, and have consulted
it with remarkable success. It is written in Sanskrit, and in
Telegu characters . There are some six or seven volumes. They
contain (r) a forecast of the destiny of the work itself; (2) the
lives of every one of its successive possessors ; and (3) details
concerning every person who may at any time come into casual
relations with the existing holder of the work.
I may remark that the predictions concerning the destiny of
the British Empire which were lately published in this magazine
were taken from this particular Bhimakavi . They were the
result of ;:i. personal interview with the astrologer by a member
of the Theosophical Society.
The circumstances of the way in which the present holder of
the book came into possession of it are worthy of notice, as
showing the remarkable nature of the predictions under the first
of the foregoing heads. It appears that the former owner, at
the time. of his death, informed his wife that on a certain day,
some time afterwards, a Brahman of a certain name (that of the
present owner) would be in a particular house, enjoying himself
HINDU ASTROLOGY. 39
with a relative. She was to go and call him, and deliver to him
the whole of the kadjans. This transpired as the Brahman had
predicted. For a long time the successor to this valuable
property could find no use for it, not knowing the "keys."
After a while, and with the assistance of a T elegu Brahman
astrologer, he managed to discover some of the keys, but to this
day a great part of the work remains untrodden ground.
Be that as it may, the use to which those volumes he has
mastered can be put, is nothing short of the marvellous.
A certain page of a volume being found by means of a brief
calculation, constituting one of the " keys " aforesaid, that page
is turned up. Read from the commencement of the page, it
gives the incidents of that day of the astrologer's life up to the
point where the querent comes upon him. At this point the
text switches off by a reference to another volume and page,
which latter, being referred to, is found to contain an account of
the querent's life, the purpose for which· he has come, and an
answer to his enquiries. During the passage of all this informa-
tion, there will sometimes occur several breaks in the text, with
notes referring to other pages and volumes. At the end of all it
will be said at what time the querent can again apply for
information, the month being given, the particular day and hour
being left to the choice of the querent himself.
The Bhimakavi at Shiyali is now in the hands of its fifth
owner. · There are two others to whom it is to descend, and
then, according to its own prediction, it will disappear. In this
Bhimakavi the introduction of the telegraph is described, in
connection with the occupation of one querent, as " correspon-
dence by mean~ of posts and wires." How it comes to pass
that the incidents of persons' lives are recorded in such mar-
vellous detail before ever those persons are born, as happens in
the case of every living querent, only a clever astrologer can
attempt to explain. The Bhimakavi of which I am now writing
was once in the possession of the Nawab (Nabob) of Arcot, who
was conquered by Lord Clive, as appears from the private seal
upon the kadjans.
It is from the standpoint of these far-reaching predictions,
entering as they do into the smallest circumstances of a man's
daily life, that the thoughtful person, to whom such fore-
knowledge is a proven fact, reviews once more his ideas and
beliefs concerning human freewill and destiny.
SEPHARIAL.
(To be &01Jtiniud.)
ttermtnue11'ttre.-preet~ent
'.ltncoln.
T HIS figure is erected for the moment when the shot was
fired at President Lincoln, from the effects of which he
afterwards died. He was in a theatre at the time, and the shot
hit him in the back of the head.
The Sun is in the sign Aries, ruling the head, is in opposition
to the greater malefic, Saturn, and is situated on the cusp of the
fifth house, which rules theatres and places of amusement.
These positions exactly describe the event. Moreover, the two
rnalefics Mars and Uran us are both in the seventh house, that of
enemies, and one of them, Mars, rules the twelfth house, secret
enemies.
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Figure for moment of death.
7.22 a.m., 15th April, 1865,
Washington.
MUNDANE ASTROLOGY.
This figure is drawn for the moment when he drew his last
breath. The time was carefully noted by a surgeon in attendance.
It seems to depict the nature of the death-by a secret assassin-
somewhat more clearly than the first figure; for Mercury, lord
of the ascendant, is in the twelfth house (secret enemies) and
the Sun is on the cusp of the same house in opposition to Saturn.
In the first figure, the Moon, ruling the eighth house (death) is
rising; in the second figure Venus, ruling secret enemies, is
nearest to the ascendant.
In Raphael's Guide to Astrology, Vol. II., Lincoln's horoscope
of birth is given, and, if the time of birth is correct, he had the
same sign of the zodiac rising at his birth as at the moment he
was shot. The Sun at death was in exact opposition to the
place of Mars (ruler of the twelfth) at birth.
munbaneBstrolog\?.
AT the moment of New Moon, 7.5 a.m., 10th September, 1893,
.t'\. the planets are thus posited :- ~ in n.Jlon cusp of 12th,
if, 0, and >in d in nJ1.in 12th, '? rising in ~. ? near cusp of
2nd in ~. W in 2nd in 111.,2f. and W in n intercepted in 9th.
M.C. 5°<2D30',asc. 4°~ 20'. From the conjunction of Mars with
the luminaries, we apprehend much crime will be rife during the
month, that much sickness will be experienced in all classes of
society, and even royalty will come under its malign influen"ce;
our hospitals will be unfortunately.well tenanted. Uranus in the
second, in sextile to Mercury, will produce much excitement in
financial circles, and as the luminaries are applying to semi-
square, some "lame ducks will be hatched."
The conjoined luminaries and Mars are in square to Neptune
in the ninth. It will be interesting to note how it acts. It will
probably affect the ruling powers adversely, and there is a
likelihood of serious accidents on the high seas, and a great
conflagration in the metropolis is not unlikely.
St. Petersburgh will experience financial stagnation, and
deaths of eminent men are almost certain, and much crime.
New York, or the neighbourhood, will suffer from the effects
of a series of accidents, and a panic in speculating circles may
be anticipated, and much excitement in diplomatic spheres.
~be $tubents'<torner.
BY " RAPHAEL,"
THE CORRECT TIME TO SET A MAP.
T HE only correct and reliable time to set a figure is when an

idea, thought, or proposition first occurs. Maps set for
any other time than this are simply secondary and delusive. For
instance, if you have a journey to take, set your map for the
instant when you first think of it, or have it proposed to you, and
not for the time you set out on it, or it will not be reliable.
Why? Because the first causes will have altered, and the actual
journey is but the result of the first thought. Again, as regards
business, the first thought of any new enterprise or scheme is the
correct time ; the time of negociating business or making any
bargain is not reliable unless it happened on the spur of the
moment. Maps set for after events will harmonise with the
original, but will not depict clearly the actual result.
We have a striking illustration of this in the July number of
your contemporary, page 98, wherein a figure is given for the
launch of the ill-fated warship Victoria. There are only two or
three testimonies that bear on the misfortune. The first is the
position of Herschel on the second, which denotes a sudden loss
of money through the vessel ; the other is the position of Saturn
on the cusp of the eleventh; lord of the fifth (ruling manreuvres),
ane afflicted by Mars and the 0 ; and ~ ruling the vessel, in in *
exact P. with I§, which is the most unfortunate sign of any for
that planet. ·
The judgment of your contemporary is very amusing. He
says : " Reference to the diagram shows the 0 afflicted by the
proximity of c1', by quartile aspect with '?, and only 9° past the
8 of W, the 0 and c1'being nearly in d in the eighth, the house
of death."
Now these aspects had been on the board for a week or more,
at the least, before the vessel was launched ! Again : " '? elevated
above all the heavenly bodies in the tenth house." But '? is not
in the tenth, neither is he elevated above all the other planets;
for ? and W are nearer the meridian than '?. The Moon, we are
told, " is cadent in the third, in Scorpio, and in the zodiacal
parallel to c ." This, of course, is wonderful, but for my part I
EXALTATIONS. 43
do not see in what way it applies to the vessel, especially as she
is in d, and close P. with 2/..
Then the le4 rned editor quotes from Lilly, and says that *
rules the paddles or screw in steam vessels.*
I have not a copy of Lilly by me, but I am curious to know
what steam vessels were afloat at that time! H aly, we are told,
gives the same description, and says that " J;, afflicting 'the asc.
or the ) causeth shipwreck." In this case, J;, is in *
to the asc.,
and t:,. to the ) so tho,e remarks do not apply again. " If J;, be
in the tenth, it denotes shipwreck," but J;, is not in the tenth, but
on the cusp of the eleventh, and Lilly, we are told, says: " If the
infortune in an angle oe J;,, the vessel will strike ground." I
presume most vessels that are wrecked str£ke ground some-
where, but this remark of Lilly does not apply, an,j it was non -
sense to quote it.
Then commences the usual tirade against the Admiralty for
neglecting astrology, but instead of lamenting this, why does he
not lament his ignorance of the science, and set himself seriously
to work to improve it. I invited him a short time ago to give us
something original, and I suppose this is the result.
• [ NOTE BY EDITOR . Lilly 's work was published in 1647, and is a treatise on
"HORARY" Astrology. Steam vessels are not mentioned, for they were not
invented until about a century after Lilly's death. Pearce, as usual, misrepresents
facts.]
i;ialtattons.
O N page 487 of Vol. II. of this magazine, I gave a scheme of
double exaltations, suggested by a comparison of two
articles written by myself and "Sepharial." I reprint the table
for convenience of reference.
TABLE OF DOUBLE EXALTATIONS ,
0 )
7 6' ? ~ Planet.
'Y'
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t n - 2/.
st
Vj'
Day Exaltation.
Night Exaltation.
A contributor
l11. llJl
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to a contemporary
<2o
magazine, when referring to

the suggested alterations in the exaltations, gave the following
interesting calculations. If we number each of the signs of the
zodiac, beginning with Aries as I, and then add together the day
and night houses of each planet, the sum in each case is a multiple
of 3. The Sun and Moon are reckoned together as one planet
for this purpose.
44 EXALTATIONS.
NUMBERS OF HOUSES.
Day 0 5 0 I ? 2 ~ 3 2+ y ? II
Night ) 4 8 7 6 12 IO
9 9 9 9 21 21
The houses of the luminaries, Mars, Venus, and Mercury,

added together in this way amount to 9, or 3 x 3. Jupiter and
Saturn give 21, or 3 x 7.
The same writer then attempted to arrange the orthodox
exaltations in a similar numerical scheme. He gave the major
planets thus:- J;,7, 2+-4,J' ro; the sum being 21, or 3 x 7. The
sum of the four remaining planets then ;mounts to 21 also. 01,
? 12, ~ 6, h.
If he had tested my scheme of double exaltations in the same
way, I think he would have found very remarkable results.
NUMBERS OF EXALTATIONS.
Day 0 1 ? 3 ~ II J 9 2+-5 J;, 7
Night >2 12 4 6 IO 8
3
Each of these sums is a multiple of 3, and the uniformity is
very remarkable. The sum is 15, or 3 x 5, in each case, except
with the luminaries, which together amount to 3.
The triplicities shew a similar concordance. The fiery
amounting to 15, or 3 x 5; the earthy, 18, or 3 x 6; the airy 21,
or 3 x 7 ; the watery 24, or 3 x 8.
But the mere "fact of these figures being multiples of 3 is no
proof in favour of their correctness, for this jugglery with figur€s
can be carried to almost any extent. For instance, if we take
dexter sextiles to day houses, and dexter trines to night houses,
we shall have a similar series of five sums of 15 and one of 3. If,
then, we turn to sinister sextiles and trines, and treat them in a
similar way, there will be two more series, each having five sums
of 15 and one of 3. Finally, if we add all the sextiles and trines
of each house together (omitting the number of the house itself),
we get multiples of 4 quite regularly. 0 in 5l 20 ; J;, in·= 20 ;
~ in n and 'II.JI.
24 each ; 2+-in :/ and *
24 each; ) in s; 28 ; J;,
in ~ · 28 ; ? in '°' 28 ; J' in 'Y' 28 ; ? in ~ 32 ; J' in 111.32. Of
these, the movable signs are 28 each, the common signs 24 each,
and the fixed signs either 20 or 32.
H . S. G. ("LEO") .
ltbe "1tfe" of tbe Wleatber-"Planetar~ force."
(Continuedfrom page 20 . )
B UT it is riot the mere existence of this celestial machinery

which is the cause of these conditions and perturbations
which make up what is called the "weather." We have to deal
with a mysterious power which we may call its "life"-the
motive force by which this machinery is kept in constant,
unceasing activity : planetary influence. Of the exact nature
of this much difference of opinion prevails among those who
recognise it. With the ancient astrologers, as well as those of
the present day, the idea was, and is, of the imparting of some
specific quality, as of heat or cold, or positive or negative
electricity. As, however, there is no such thing as cold, in
principle-as both extremes are found upon different parts of
the Earth (even upon the same hemisphere) at the same date,
and both conditions with positions of the same planet-the
doctrine of specific influence is fallacious. The additative or
substitutive doctrine of electrical action is equally inadmissible,
that element being a simple product evolved by changes in the
condition of matter. The more scientific idea of astronomers is
that of a diminution of solar heat and energy, through the
obscuration and impediment of sun-spots (supposed to be created
by the planets "in certain ecliptic positions"), diminishing the
force of evaporation upon the Earth's surface, and decreasing
the power of the atmosphere for holding vapour in solution.
But as it is evident that the condensation and precipitation
induced occur only in belts or areas, from clouds often travelling
at great velocities, only to be supplied by intense heat and
evaporation in the inter-tropics, while even contiguous areas are
parched with drought, such a doctrine is equally inadmissible
with the "special" theory of astrology.
In contrast to these theories, the much more natural, as well
as practical hypothesis, is that of an alternate operation of the
forces of (planetary) "attraction" and (terrestrial) "gravitation"
-a ·mutual action and reaction in the "periods" of planeto-
terrestrial position shewn in the table. For instance, the
existence of the planet Neptune was surmised by observing the
planet Uran us to be "attracted" or drawn out of its natural
orbit in the heavens; calculations led to the discovery of the
"attracting" body in the remote Neptune. Now, it is evident
that any force thus capable, at that immense distance, of attract-
THE LI°FE OF THE WEATHER,
ing the solid mass of a planet-acting upon the light gaseous

matter of its envelope-must, it is evident, be capable of causing
much greater perturbations in its atmospheric condition. Such
a force of attraction would diminish both its density and pressure,
thus causing expansion and rarefaction, with the disappearance
of heat and moisture in solution, and their absorption, through
evaporation, from the mass of the planet itself. In this way the
natural equilibrium would be destroyed, the atmosphere becoming
highly "positive," the Earth "negative." In this overcharged
condition, the slightest decrease or "waning" of the external
attraction would be the resumption and increase of the counter
force, or "gravitation," which, acting upon the atmosphere,
would contract or draw together its mass, and by thus con -
densing it, set free the latent heat and moisture previously
absorbed by evaporation, felt and seen in sultriness and dense
cloud matter. The continuance of this condensing process
would finally result in the excess of moisture being precipitated
in the form of rain, the heat ascending into the upper and cooler
currents, and thence passing away as warm winds into the
general atmospheric circulation, or again condensed into aurone
and meteors.
FREDERICK PRATT.
(To be continued.)
In this magazine for last December, we gave the Right Hon.·

W. E. Gladstone's directions for the ensuing twelve months. \Ve
predicted that the first part of the Parliamentary session would be
prosperous, and it certainly was so; the GO\·ernment proved much
stronger and more united than some had expected, and the first two
or three months of the session were particularly fortunate for them .
Then in July the direction of the Moon to the opposition of Mars was
due, and accordingly we predicted severe trouble in store with possible
personal danger to the Premier about then. This also has been ful-
filled ; the Government only succeeded in passing the Committee
stage of the Home Rule Bill by the application of the closure, which
was attended by several stormy scenes in the House. One of these
scenes took place on the evening of July 2ith, when something like a
free fight took place in one part of the House ; it was stated to be the
first time for 200 years that members had resorted to physical violence.
On this day the Moon was in Capricorn, Mr. Gladstone's ascendant,
and Mars was at Ii 0 Leo, in opposition to its place at his birth.
These occurrences also fulfilled our prediction (p. 2i6) of "fiery
debates in political circles." The prediction of some personal danger
to the Premier was fulfilled on July 2nd, when Mr. Gladstone slipped
in coming downstairs and sprained his ankle (Moon in Aquarius where
Mars was at his birth), and on July 19th, when his carriage collided
with a heavy dray as he was being driven to the House of Commons
(Moon in Libra, opposition his Jupiter).
ttbe IDegreesof tbe ZobtacS\?mboliset').
GEMINI.
n 1°.-Two yellow flowers, growmg beneath the shade of
a luxuriant tree.
It indicates a life of security, peace, and prosperity.
The native will make friendships that will prove sincere and
advantageous ; and by means of his friends he will meet
with success in life. He will be protected by someone
greater than himself, whose influence will be widespread and
beneficent. The native will 'have kind nature, trustful dis-
position, and his domestic life will be happy and prosperous.
It is a degree of secttrity.
2°.-A man scaling a wall by means of a rope ladder. In
" his teeth he holds a sword, and in his right hand a firearm.
It signifies one of a daring and courageous nature, who
will, by his own merit, rise to positions of honour, and over-
come all obstacles. He will be eloquent, carrying defence
in his mouth, and prominent in his avocation. He will,
however, die on the attainment of his greatest ambition.
A degree of prowess.
,, 3°.-A troubadour stands with one foot upon a ledge of
rock, his instrument slung at his side; he is listening to the
music of a cascade which falls at his feet.
This denotes a person of Bohemian habits, refined
tastes, a love for things beautiful, music, poetry, art, &c.
The native will lead a roaming life, will have much happi-
ness, but not gTeat fame. He will be talented, but may be
too contented in the possession of his powers, and thinking
too little of their wider uses. He will have a strong
imagination, love of the marvellous, and will be very
sensitive to the opinions and influence of others. It is a
degree of harmony.
,, 4°.-A man dressed like a :\Iinister of State, of venerable
and kindly aspect.
This degree will produce a person of kind and noble
disposition; one who will occupy positions of trust, and, by
his own merits, rise to eminence in his own sphere of work.
It is a degree of dignity.
(To be coutinued.)
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DEAR Srn,-Our friend "Sepharial's" memory is a little to fault.

Your readers will recollect that in the Spring of '92 an attack was
made on the exaltations of the planets by "Sepharial" and "Leo,"
to which I took exception. I was then asked if I could point to
a single instance of the Hindus using them. I replied that the Brihat
Jataka contained the signs and degrees of the exaltations of the
planets, so that there was little or no doubt but what the Hindus did
use them. I did not cite Ptolemy as an authority, especially as he
gives no degrees.
Now "Sepharial" says that the Hindus use the Nirayana system,
which places the 1st point of 'Y', 20° to the east of the vernal equinox,
so that according to him, the dertreesof exaltation given in·Western .
works on Astrology are not correct ; but if we alter them 20" we shall
have the 0 exalted in *,)
coincide with my experience.
in 'Y', ~ in Sl,, 2+ in n, &c., which do not
That the exaltation siyns as given in my Key and other works are
correct, I am quite sure, but as regards the actual degrees I cannot
speak definitely.
We are told in the introduction to the Brihat Jataka that our
vernal equinox cuts the equator, which is quite correct, and also that
the star Reva ti, from which point the Hindus make their calculations,
is 011 the ecliptic, which seems about the same thing, so that these
degrees of exaltation may possibly be the same, although that star
has progressedto 'Y' 20°. It has now, howeYer, disappeared.
I was pleased to see the article of" Sep ha rial" on Hindu astrology.
It confirms my opinion of the superiority of the East over the \Vest.
RAPHAEL.
DECLINATIONS.
Srn.-1 think "Raphael" has slightly misunderstood me on the
subject of declinations. By "centre of the Earth," I meant the point
at the interior of the Earth round which the whole may be imagined
to revolve, and not a line passing round the outside. If a line is
drawn from this central point to the equator, and others to planets,
then all planets that are in parallel declination will form the same
angle with the line passing from the centre to the equator, whether
they are in aspect or not.
Surely the equator is, functionally, a real line ; it is the central
circle equi-distant from the poles; and these poles, again, are function-
ally real, for the Earth rotates round them. So that there is a difference
between the equator and any other imaginary circle drawn round the
Earth.
I think the best thing we can do is to drop Theosophical discussion
in this magazine except when it bears directly upon astrology.
LEO (H. S. G.)
(Other letters held ovtr.)
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mobernJbeasof an Bstrologer.
T HE notions as to the personal characteristics of an Astrologer

in the minds of many people, is very hazy and vague, to say
the least of it, and yet there is no sound reason why it should be so.
Many look upon him (I say "him " advisedly, for although there
are many clever astrologers of the feminine gender, the male
object is the one they only think at all probable), as a relic of the
Middle Ages, and they picture him as an old, aye, very old man,
with unkempt hair, if any, and a beard anything y0u like over
two feet long or so, whose attire consists of a kind of sack, with
a rope tied round the middle, sandals on feet, and whose face and
hands have not had personal contact with Pears' soap for some con-
siderable period. The abode of such a wretched being is supposed
to be in a hut in some wo')d· or other, and his companion, a cat,
abnormally large (who generally resides on the sage's shoulder),
and a skull, together with an hour-glass, in fact, a kind of " Old
Father Time," minus his scythe. Amusing, isn't it? However
they came to entertain this idea is a mystery, and what few
drawings there are extant, partake of this kind of portrayal.
Even so recently as seven years ago, on the cover of the Astrologer,
an object of this character is depicted, with a kind of short
scaffold-pole in hand, pointing to a figure of the heavens.
Some of the society "fairies" also have their ideas on the
subject, partaking somewhat of the former character, but their
notions of methods of study are excruciatingly funny. Why, one
of these young ladies told me that she thought astrologers must
be very cold, and that they ought to lie on a blanket when they
study the star,;, &c., &c., and when she was informed I was an
astrologer in an amateurish sort of way, she cried," Oh! Mr.--,
don't you find it very cold, being out of doors all night ! " I
incidentally mentioned I objected to everything cold, even cold
mutton on Mondays, and the "cold shoulder" generally, and that
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50 MODERN IDEAS OF AN ASTROLOGER.
her first impressions were decidedly wrong, and, as example is

better than precept, I showed her the modus operandi in outline,
so that she could see for herself how erroneous her ideas were,
and, I am glad to say, it caused her to look at astrology, its
principles and laws, from a rational standpoint, and, in addition,
she found it was not the chimera she had hitherto supposed it to
be.
Another class look upon all astrologers as rogues and vagabonds
of a very low order, and unfortunately, many of these people who
have seen the semi-quack astrological advertisements in some of
the newspapers of "your fortune tolJ for six stamps" order,
have cause to think somewhat disparagingly of them, yet, as
there is no doubt many " black sheep " are to be found in the
astrological flock, so are they also in the clerical, legal, and
medical fraternities, in fact, they are to be found in connection
with every phase of society, but the true astrologer is as different
from the chartalan as the qualified surgeon is from the quack.
If our students and readers want some innocent amusement, let
them ask all their acquaintances what their individual ideas of
what an astrologer is, &c., &c., and they will have some original
definitions, which will perchance, be worth listening to.
At 8.45 p.m., on the 14th of August, a young man named Ernest

Clarke, aged 25, committed suicide by shooting himself in the head,
in the waiting room of Liverpool Street Station, London. There was
no apparent motive for his act, and he left a letter behind him addressed
to the editor of the Daily Chronicle,printed in that paper the next day,
in which he said that he had deliberately made up his mind to commit
suicide as he was tired of life. Thereupon, ensued an excited corres-
pondence in the same newspaper. He had apparently been living a
happy life, was engaged to be married, and was an active member of
some church. A figure for the time of his death shows the Moon
applying to the conjunction, and close parallel with Saturn on the cusp
of the seventh house. This and the presence of Uranus in the seventh
in Scorpio in square to Mercury, suggest firstly, that he may have
had some undivulged motive for his suicide, and secondly, that suicides,
and indeed all crimes, never happen except under evil astral influences.
The astrologer knows well that there are definite times when these
influences prevail, and then from the invisible store-house of evil which
surrounds our planet come promptings to evil, and suggestions of
every kind of crime and vice, and these find a lodgment in weak or
congenial minds. The idea that those who are " tired of life" can
find a peaceful haven on the other side of the grave is, to the occultist,
absurd, for the testimony of the seers of all times is that death does
not mean for the suicide an escape from trouble or pain.
'lbtnbuBstrolog\?.
THE NADIGRANTHAM.
(Contin"edfrom page 39.)
I N the village of Thirurnalajanpatanam, near N egapatam, in

the Tanjore district of Southern India, there exists a Nadi-
grantham in the possession of one named Rengaswami Pillai.
A certain gentleman from Triplicane, Madras, went to consult
the Nadigranthain, and has been kind enough to submit his
results to my notice. The astrologer, after making some calcu-
lations, told him to refer to the fourth volume of his books,
which are written upon palmyra leaves, in the usual manner of
Indian books, and there was found therein, after a little search,
the following horoscope, which corresponded with the positions
of the planets in the known horoscope of the querent. The
delineation, written in Tamil verse, occupies twenty-eight stanzas.
In brief, it tells the positions of the planets, gives a description
of the place of birth, personal appearance of the native, names
the languages he would learn, enumerates his intellectual attain-
ments, tells the number of his brothers and sisters and of his
aunts and uncles on the father's side, describes the family estate,
gives titne and particulars of marriage, tells of his former birth,
the birth of a daughter is predicted, the death of his wife, his
second marriage, his subsequent issue, cites four languages out of
which he would gain proficiency in two, one being the foreign
language of the court (English), predicts a post in the legal pro-
fession in his twenty-fourth year, and proficiency therein in his
twenty-seventh; the future is thereafter . described, and his
father's and mother's death predicted at certain ages ; the
diseases from which he will suffer are enumerated, and his death
predicted at 57.
With regard to these predictions, it is right to remark that
only the appearance of the gentleman is at fault. I call them
"predictions" because, from the age of the leaves, it is easy to
see that the books were written long before this person was born.
It is hardly necessary to say that in this outline there are points
predicted, with singular accuracy, which our Western Astrology
could hardly deal with. On the other hand, even a slight study
of Hindu Jotisha will reveal the fact that the whole of the rules
are formulated to suit the peculiar caste and family customs of
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HINDU ASTROLOGY.
the nation. Our own rules of prediction no more hold good in

the case of Hindus than do theirs apply to us. Who, for
instance, among English astrologers, would predict marriage at
8-years of age, .or the birth of a a child at 16 or 17 years? In all
caste families it is regarded a disgrace for a girl to be unmarried
after puberty, while, for a widow to marry a second time, would
out-caste herself and all her relations. Then again, a Brahman
can hardly ever be induced to take a sea voyage to a foreign
country, despite the fact that thousands might be found with
planets in movable signs, and in a watery sign in the ninth
house. So different from our own, indeed, is the life of a
Brahman, or, indeed, of any caste Hindu, and especially so is
that of the average Hindu woman, that to predict the events of
their lives from our own Western rules wou'd only make a farce
of the science. It is not, therefore, a matter for surprise that
they have a system of astrology so different from our o ,vn that,
only in the basic principles relating to the nature of the planets,
signs and houses, can they be said to have any point of agreement.
And yet, even in this matter, they do not coincide entirely, as
I may hereafter show. It has yet to be remarked that upon
their own lines of prediction the Hindu astrologers are far more
expert than are we in the \Vest. I have seen some curious
things in confirmation of this statement, and there is much more
yet to be seen. Some of these experiences I will hereafter detail.
At present I am concerned with the Nadigrantham, and to me
this monument of astrological learning is a perpetual soarce of
admiration and wonder. In this statement I make no distinction
between the Prasna (horary) and Janam (natal) Nadigranthams.
From both sources I have been mystified and perplexed by the
accuracy of the predictions, and the more so as an application of
the rules contained in the Hindu text-books of astrology yield
the results given in the Nadigranthams. The use of these works
is, however, somewhat tedious, and requires a knowledge of the
time of birth to within twenty-four seconds of time; a degree
of accuracy to which even our careful methods will hardly
conduct us. With the average Western astrologer the "minute"
is the unit of time required; while with the modern Hindu joshis
it is sufficient if they get the rising lagnam (sign). The case was
otherwise, I suppose, when these Nadigranthams were prepared,
since horoscopes, differing in many essentials, are prepared
therein for persons born within twenty-four seconds of one
HINDU ASTROLOGY. 53
another, and whose Ascendants are distant, in India, only about
6" of space.
But, however precise the Hindu astrologers of 300 years ago
may have been in regard to the ascendant at the time of birth,
it is certain that extreme looseness was allowed with regard to
the planetary positions, for only the signs in which they may
happen to be at the time are recorded, the exact longitude not
being required. This seems to suggest that the Hindus knew
more about the nature of the degrees of the zodiac than do we,
and possibly these Nadigranthams will prove a valuable key to
that knowledge. This seems more evidently the case when it is
remembered how casually the positions of the planets are
recorded, as if they were but modifying factors ; while we our-
selves regard them and their aspects as essentials, and primary
factors. Yet, in thus regarding the zodiac, we must not lose sight of
the fact that the Hindu Niryana system affords an unalterable
zodiac, beginning with the asterism Asvini and ending with
Revati. The thought certainly impresses itself upon me, that it
is possibly due to the fact that we make use of a zodiac beginning
with the shifting vernal equinox, that we are not able to trace
the correspondences in the fortunes of persons born under the
same degree or fraction of a degree, for even if we compare half-
a-dozen figures having exactly the same ascendant, unless the
horoscopes are those of persons born in the same month and
year, or at least within two months of one another, the astral
influence is not the same on each ascendant, owing to the pre-
cession of the equinoxes at the rate of 50!" per year. Hence,
according to the theory of the Nirajana or Hindu system, we
could not expect the same results. This leads to important
questions, some of which may form useful discussion at a future
time.
The Hindus are as precise with their use of the "sign" as
they are with the "degree." If a planet is an,>where within the
limits of (their) Kartikam (Cancer), and another is anywhere in
(their) Mesham (Aries), these are regarded as in Kendra, i.e.,
square aspect. Similarly, with regard to the trikonams or
trines, sextiles, etc., the signs occupied by the planets are alone
consulted. With mathematical aspects, "orbs " of influence,
etc., they have nothing whatever to do. The" sign" is the unit
of measure in determining aspects .
54 HINDU ASTROLOGY,
Yet withal, there , are the results. These alone make an

investigation of Hindu astrology a matter of extreme intellectual
fascination. The whole system, horoscopes and directions alik~
seem to emphasize the necessity for studying the zodiacpure and
simple. It also points to the fact that degrees of the zodiac
have an importance in astrology perhaps little understood, even
by the Pandit Joshis of India in the present day.
SEPHARIAL.
'
We extract the following quotation from the Prasnottara for May.
It is part of an answer by "Sepharial" to the following question, put
by an enquirer: " It is a common belief among Hindus that an indi-
vidual has a fixed period of existence, and that no one can kill him or
save him before or after that time. What is the explanation of this?"
The following part of the reply, will, we think, interest our readers:-
" Admitting that the astral prototype resulting from the eid6lon of
the past birth is built up under the general laws appertaining to the
astral plane of existence, it follows that under given conditions, a
certain and definite constitution of the " astral man" will be the result.
The aggregate of forces represented in that constitution will, by their
successive correlations, conduce to the up-building of the_ astral body,
or its destruction. The forces that go to build up a planetary body
will, in the process of time, serve for its destruction. Astronomy gives
illustrations of both these processes. ·what are these forces? The
same operate in the evolution of a sidereal system, as in the up-building
of a human form. Regarded merely as cosmic forces, they are subject
to the modifications imposed by the transmitting agents. The agents,
so far as man is concerned, are the planetary bodies, which transmit to
the Earth the pure solar forces in altered electrical and magnetic con-
ditions, according to their several natures. The predominance of
certain agents over others in the solar system, at the time of the
formation of the astral body, determines the specific nature of the
personality into which the Ego subsequently incarnates more fully.
This period can be astrologically determined, and has been called the
'pre-natal epoch.' Medicines, &c., act upon the physical body by
means of the astral man, and it is the astral body which must first
disorganise before death can be induced on the physical body. If the
forces inherent in the astral body are such as to resist the effects of
injuries sustained, then the person will not die; and it is just this
difference between the constitutions of various ' astrals ' which makes
one man long-lived and another the victim of the first serious affection.
Man has three bodies in truth; a solar or luminous, a lunar or astral,
and an earthly or physical body. These he derives indirectly from the
Sun, Moon, and Earth. They are respectively the Osiris, Isis and
Horus; father, mother, and son."
If our subscribers have any copies of No. 18 of the Astrologers'

Magazine (January, 1·892), we should be pleased to have them, and will
exchange them for other Numbers, or purchase .them if dean,
3nfanttlemortalit~.
BY "ALAN Lao."
O WING to want of space I am compelled to discontinue

giving the three maps to each case, as in the previous
numbers ; but those students who are interested will have no
difficulty in filling in the map from the positions which I purpose
giving now with every case. Many letters have come to hand in
answer to last month's request, and I shall be glad of further
particulars, so as to make this subject thoroughly up to date.
Amongst the first batch, I have come across the following, which
I think is worth giving in full, as I know this student to be very
well up in astrological matters. As I. am not sure that he will
approve of my giving his full name and address, I withhold it :-
DEAR Srn,
In this month's Magazine you ask for particulars of any infants'
death; I therefore send you the following, which happened to one of
my own children, so that I can vouch for the correctness of time, etc.
Male, born August 1st, 1891, 11.5 p.m., at Cardiff, died April nth,
1892, at 8.40 p.m. ; cause of death, convulsions in teething, together
with spinal complaint. Up to within a month of his death, he was
a fine healthy boy, without any sickness or indication of spinal disease.
He answered entirely to the sign Taurus, and apparently had nothing
the matter with him, but about a month before he died his spine
began to grow out of shape, and his limbs grew weak, so that he
could not feel his feet, and cried at every touch. · He had cut two
teeth without any trouble, but on the last convulsions set in, which
lasted about 30 hours, and he then died. He had every care and
attention from birth, and never had a fall, or anything that I know
of, to put his spine out, so that it was a purely natural case. I may
say that I erected his figure at birth, and predicted he would die of
convulsions, but could not fix the time, neither can I see how the
time of death corresponds with the nativity.
Trusting this may help you in your investigations,
I am, &c'., J. R.
The planetary positions are as follows for time of birth,
August 1st, 189r, u.5 p.m. :-
M.C. nth 12th intercepted asc. 2nd 3
24 1'J40 :::::170 * 25 'Y' 248 23 n 18
0 9° &l 21' >7° eo42' ~2° t1J1.
57' ~ 26° eo 23'
*
2J.17° o' ~ ? 15° t1J1.
21' W 27 ~ 37 W 8 n 36.
The real affliction in the figure is Saturn, opposition Jupiter,
and this latter planet rules the house of death, Venu~ square
Uran us, and Venus is lady of the horoscope, Sun conjunction
Man should add strength to the boy's constitution.
56 THE LIFE OF THE WEATHER.
He died April 11th, 1892. The Moon by direction had

progressed by 16° \1.o 26', separating from SEXTILE Saturn and
applying to trine Jupiter! Now those who hold that the Moon
forces everything into action must be amazed at these aspects
producing Death. I confess I am surprised myself, and it takes
a good deal to surprise me ; but let us try some other system,
and see the result.
"J. R.'s" son died 8 months and 10 days after his birth
within an hour or so, the M.C. has progressed within a degree of
the opposition of Venus, but here comes the cause. By the
process system, for each month we add 2t0 to the ascendant; for
8 months this gives 20°, 10 days values 50', which gives us
20-0 50', this added to asc . 24 ~ 23 makes 15° 13' of n , which is
square the evil Saturn. Now the boy was taken ill about a month
before his death. Note ascendant by process is then sesquiquadrate
Herschel, then the square to Saturn produces death, and the
ascendant applies to a square of Jupiter, lord of the eighth, who
helps the affliction by being retrograde. This case certainly
supports the process very strongly. What say you, opponents?
Come, speak out !
ttbe "'JUfe"
of tbe 'Wleatber-"~lanetar\?
force/'
(Continuedfrom page 46.)
In a more highly-charged condition , as of "group," or of

"solar" positions, this process of atmospheric decomposition
would be of a more extreme nature. The condensation of
vapour would then be so rapid, and its elements be set free in
such mass and intensity, as to give rise to a sudden and violent
disruption of the vapour condition, furnishing all the well-known
phenomena of the electric (thunder) storm-a literal explosion of
vapour in an unnatural state of tension, in which the heat of
vaporisation, condensed into electricity, is transformed in the
process of decomposition into lightning or meteors (thunder-
bolts), and thus returned to the Earth from whence it evaporated
-shortly followed by the accompanying moisture, now converted
into the more solid form of torrential rains, hail, or even ice-
masses, irito which it is converted by the sudden and extreme
exhaustion of the etectricity in the lightning, etc.
• THE LIFE OF THE WEATHER. 57'
But this sudden disruption and decomposition is the cause of
much more grand and terrible phenomena-those of the gale,
the hurricane, and the tornado or cyclone-the causes and
motive forces of which may be easily conceived from a con-
sideration of the principles of chemistry. At the level of the sea
water is 860 times the weight of air; at one mile high, 1,083
times; at two miles, 1,366 times; at three miles, 1,716 times;
at four miles, 2,160 times; at five miles, 2,719 times. One inch
of water, by evaporation, thus occupies an air-space ranging
between 860 and 2,700 cubic inches. And, conversely, for every
square mile over which an inch of rain was re-deposited, a vacuum
or rarefaction would be formed amounting to 1,997,952,000 cubic
feet! Well, at Genoa, October 25, 1822 (day after W position,
? 8 0, 30th), the 24 hours' rainfall measured 30 ins. (1! ins. per
hour) ; at Perth, August 3, 1829 (the Earth just passed between
W and the 0 and ? ), the fall was 4! ins. in 34 minutes (9 ins.
per hour). The vacuum thus formed was, in that at Genoa, at
the rate of 41,624,000 cubic feet per minute, or 493,763 feet per
second; in that at Perth, of 53,278,720 cubic feet per minute, or
887,978 per second, for the wh')le time of the fall.
Now let the reader call to mind some of the deluging r.:tin
and hail storms in England, as the great bail storm of August 1,
1846 (lf. position August 3), when the depth was 4 ins. in one
hour; the great hail storm of May 29, 1868 (lf. position on 28th),
when the rain and hail fell at the rate of 6 ins. per hour; and he
will then conceive the enormous vacuum which must have been
instantaneously created in the formation of the mass of water
and ice precipitated, and with what almost incredible violence
and intensity the contiguous masses of atmosphere must have
clashed together. This clashing together of the surrounding air
is the creation of the motive force of the cyclone, tornado, or
storm, as, so commingling, the combined current rushes onward
or downward in a whirling tornado in the great currents of
atmospheric circulation, dealing havoc and destruction in its
resistless progress. This, in turn, becomes the progenitor of
other storms; for, being exhausted of its heat by the electric
discharge which set it in motion, it forms an icy blast, which, as
it rushes through the atmosphere, suddenly chills and condenses
its vapour, evolves its electricity, and so creates new vacuo and
force to feed its decaying violence.
Such may be conceived to be the general nature and action
D 2
58 THE LIFE OF THE WEATHER.
of planetary influence. The creation of a "planetary force," a

mutual attraction between the Earth and the planet ; its gradual
increase, and ·coinciding diminution of the inherent gravitating
force of each mas~, thus expanding and enlarging the volume of
each atmosphere, and forming a medium or reservoir for the
absorption of heat and moisture from the surface, and their
incorporation and solution in the form of vapour, increasing in
force and accumulation as the orbs approach the focus of
influence, or" culmination." This point reached, there being no
longer sufficient force of "attraction" to maintain the extreme
atmospheric tension, "gravitation" resumes its sway, and_ re-
action sets in with a force and suddenness corresponding to the
season or latitude, and the combinat.ion of influences in previous
operation.
The alternate action and reaction of these two forces consti-
tute the "life" of the weather-the so-called "planetary force," so
little known and so much less understood. Among astronomers
and physicists ' the two forces are slightly recognised by a few
under the terms "attraction" and "repulsion," according as a
planet may be advancing to or receding from the Sun. It is
fully treated of in a work called Force and Nature, by C. F.
Winslow, M.D. (1869); and is well worth study, as a clue to
"cosmic life." Astro-meteorology has no idea of any such
independent and counter forces, but falls back upon special
properties of heat and cold, as pertaining to both planets and
constellations, perverted and disturbP.d by "aspects" formed
between the planets and the Sun and Moon. The" mixture of
confusion" so created is transmitted to the Earth, as the vertex
of the [imaginary] angle, and so accounts for all the atmospheric
disturbances of the time, ignoring th~ simple fact that the so-
called " mutual " and " lunar " aspects are neither in any angular
relation (geometricall)) with each other, with the Sun, or with
the Earth! The only "aspects" that have any existence are
those called solars, made up of the 30° or "sign" positions ; and
then only because of their direct action when the Earth is m
"sign-angular" position, as shown in the table, p. 278.
FREDERICK PRATT.
ERRATUM.-Page 19, line 15, for bells read belts; the latter term
being the explanation of the failures so often seen in weather pre-
dictions, as after explained.
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I N Sir Walter Scott's life of Napoleon Buonaparte the time of

his death is given as 5.49 p.m., on May 5th, 1821, at St.
Helena. Taking the latitude as 16° 51 south, and the longitude
as 23 minutes west of Greenwich, the above figure will represent
the mundane and zodiacal positions at the time. Scorpio is
rising, an appropriately martial sign; and its ruler, Mars, is in
Aries, another martial sign, in conjunction with Jupiter, Saturn,
and Mercury. The Sun and Venus are in Taurus, on the cusp
of the seventh house; the Moon is on the cusp of the ninth in
opposition to Uran us.
Comparing this for a moment with his birth figure, we notice
that he had Libra rising in the natus, an~ that this fourfold
conjunction in Aries at death fell in his seventh house of birth ;
and that it is in square to his Moon in Capricorn; and his Saturn
in Cancer; the Moon and Saturn having been in opposition at
his birth. This polarity of Aries with Cancer, the former sign
governing the head, and the latter the stomach, explains the
nature of his death, which was from disease of the stomach,
accompanied by delirium at the last. The death figure shews
the same indications, for the Moon is there in Cancer, afflicted
by the opposition of Uran us.
We think the death figure, taken alone, although very sig-
nificant in some respects, hardly accords with the whole of his
extraordinary career. So far as his character goes, it does not fit
him inaptly, for the martial traits are very strongly shewn, and
60 TERMINUS VIT...E.
the proud, ambitious, overbearing nature, which is so likely to

. accompany such a conjunction ·as this in Aries. The conjunction
of Mercury, one of the planets governing the mind, with these
three planets in the sign of the head, would fitly accord with his
unbounded mental gifts. We can only look upon this close
conjunction of Mars, ruler of the ascendant, with Saturn, as
thoroughly characteristic of the unscrupulous cruelty of the man
who was responsible for the death of over a million of his fellow
creatures.
The conjunction of the Sun and Venus on the cusp of the
seventh is a very suitable position, for his first marriage with
Josephine was happy and fort!J.nate, and was only dissolved by
his own deliberate purpose because she bore him no children.
The affliction of the Moon by Uran us may perhaps indicate the
upshot of this marriage. His second marriage was with an
Austrian princess, and we notice that the Sun here rules the tenth
house, and therefore indicates that his wife would be of higher
station than his own.
He had only one child, the sickly little so-called Napoleon
the Second, who died young. This is indicated by the fact that
Jupiter and Mercury, ruling the fifth and eleventh, are afflicted
by both Mars and Saturn.
The conjunction of the Sun and Venus being benefic may,
perhaps, indicate the great popularity he won among certain
classes, principally the army, at the earlier stages of his career;
as the Sun rules the tenth house, it is also significant of his
power. The Sun also fairly describes the rivals among the
crowned heads of Europe whom he raised up as enemies.
The Moon on th~ cusp of the ninth, opposed by the eccentric
Uranus, indicates the vein of superstition that ran through his
nature, and the way in which he made even religion subserve his
unbounded ambition . He pictured the time when he should
control his armies with one hand, and with the other, pull the
strings of his puppet, the pope, and thus be the absolute dictator,
in religion as well as in politics and warfare, throughout the
whole of Europe.
It is hardly in accordance with what we should expect that
so many planets should be found in the sixth house of this
fig_ure. If this house had the meaning attributed to it by Hindu
astrologers-enemies-:this position would seem highly appro-
priate, and such a signification is certainly worth considering.
ttbe Stubents'(torner.
BY " RAPHAEL.''
LUNAR DIRECTIONS.
I N calculating the lunar directions, particular attention should

be paid to the place of Saturn by transit. It may here be
observed that the motion of the Moon by direction and that of
Saturn by transit are very similar. For instance, the Moon goes
through the twelve signs in about 28 days, and the transit of
Saturn through the same occupies about 29! years. The motion
of the Moon, however, is not regular, varying as it does from 12°
to 15°, or more, per day. Saturn, also, has his retrogradations.
Now, when you find the place of the Moon by direction, in d,
o or 8 to the place of Saturn by transit, and her motion at the
same time slow, the native will then experience a long spell of
misfortune, in conformity with the significations of the nativity,
because the good directions of the Moon will be neutralised by
Saturn, and the evil ones will be excited into action. On the
other hand, the * or t::,. of Saturn to the place of the Moon, by
direction, will prove beneficial, and bring about good fortune.
The student will observe, that in either case, Saturn will follow
the Moon very closely, unless her motion be swift, when she will
soon pass out of orbs.
It must never be forgotten that no direction or directions can
bring about an event not fore-signified in the nativity. For
instance, if a man has Jupiter in the second house, do not judge
bankruptcy, but if Mars or Saturn be there, unless very strong, it
is more than probable that it will occur. Again, if the Moon be
well aspected by Jupiter, and the first, fifth, and seventh be free
from the presence of the malefics, do not judge that a female will
disgrace herself. Saturn or Mars in the fifth or seventh is very
unfortunate for females. Herschel there is not so bad, although
much depends on how he is aspected. This planet causes sudden
moral lapses, rather than a life of prostitution.
On August 4th, a shock of earthquake was felt near Leicester.

The known earthquake signs were then well tenanted. The Moon and
Jupiter were in Taurus, the Sun, Mars, and Mercury in Leo, and
Uranus in Scorpio, in opposition to the Moon.
mobernSstrologers.
No. III.-" SEPHARIAL."
T HE planets were posited as above when the well-known

astrologer who uses the nom de plume of " Sepharial " was
born. The ascending degree is thus symbolised: "A man in a
balloon, with the dark clouds beneath him. Denotes an ex-
perimentalist, an investigator of the imponderables ; one whose
life will abound with trials, but success will ultimately crown his
labours." Capricorn is intercepted in the ascendant, Saturn and
Jupiter, the two lords, are both above the Earth. In person he
is tall, long-legged, and thin as a churchyard ghost. His face is
decidedly that of a mystic, with a shockhead of dark, curly,
unruly hair . In disposition he is kind and good-natured, and
readily attracts friends (notice Jupiter, lord of ascendant, in the
house of friends, and Venus exactly rising in Leo at the pre-natal
epoch} ; he is devoted to all forms of occultism, and has tireless
- ...
,- .... -4......
MODERN ASTROLOGERS,-" SEPHARIAL," 63
energy and perseverance. He is lively and cheerful in manner,
and is far from possessing that gloom and solemnity which
outsiders sometimes consider the proper air for an occultist.
As an astrologer he is remarkable for the very original work
he has done. His intuition, which is naturally considerable, has
been strengthened by his occult training and associations, and
has enabled him to do work which would be impossible to the
average Western astrologer. On this account we hail with
gladness his present residence in India, for we are convinced
that a study of Eastern astrological methods by the light which
" Sepharial " has in him ought to be of considerable practical
value to both systems of astrology.
Jupiter, the lord of his ascendant, is in the house of friends,
in trine to the Sun in the third house; the position of the Sun
associates him with magazines and clerical work (third house),
while Mercury, the lord of the ninth (literature), situated in the
second (money), shews money gained by the pen. Mercury is
situated on a strong point of the zodiac, and this accounts for its
prominence in the life history, for, apart from this, the planet is
not strong, it is in a weak sign, Pisces, and squared by Uranus.
This square of Mercury to Uranus signifies, firstly, loss of money
through publications or, writings relating to occultism-and we
know that his excellent magazine Fate and Fortune was not
supported as it deserved to be-,--and secondly, that he will meet
with opposition .from occultists and astrologers whose methods
do not accord with his own. His second house contains three
planets which are not very favourably aspected, hence he loses
financially by his devotion to occultism. Mr. Stead is perfectly
correct when he says that the Borderland does not spell money.
"All hope (of money-making) abandon ye who enter here."
Mars is just on the cusp of the second house, and " Sepharial "
was, for a short time, apprenticed to a chemist, a martial
occupation (notice also that Mars rules the mid-heaven), but as
the planet afflicts the Sun by semi-square, Jupiter, by parallel,
and Uranus by sesquiquadrate, this endured but for a short time.
The next planet, Venus, rules the ninth house (literature and
religion), and is applying to the trine of Uranus, and hence
promises some success in publishing literature dealing with
occult subjects. We hope that a new work on astrology by him
will shortly be announced. As Venus is opposed by the Moon,
squared by Jupiter, and rules the fourth house (the end of life),
64 MODERN ASTROLOGERS,-" SEPHARIAL,"
he will, doubtless, not expect to leave many millions behind him

when he shuffles off this mortal coil, which he need not regret,
as he canaot take it away with him, a fact so many of us lose
sight of. It will be noticed that the Moon is in the opposite
sign to both Mars and Venus, and is distant about 14° from the
opposition of Mars ; this corresponds to an illness affecting the
left leg at the age of fourteen (Aquarius governs the lower part of
the legs), and to other misfortunes happening then. The
opposition of the Moon to Venus we take to indicate (together
with the position of Uran us on the cusp of the house of marriage)
the breaking off of an engagement, to which he alluded in his first
article on "Hindu Astrology."
That he possesses practical occult powers in th~ direction of
clairvoyance, thought -reading, etc., is a fact of which some of his
friends have had good proof; and that his dream-life by night is
sometimes as active as his waking-life by day can be seen by a
perusal of his strange tale of " An Astral Tramp " (a name given
him by Madame Blavatsky) in Lucifer, October, 1891. These
occult tendencies have several indications in his horoscope. The
position of Saturn exalted in Libra in the ninth house in trine to
Uranus we regard as important, also the sextile of the Moon to
Uranus. These are backed up by the p~sition of Venus in Leo,
exactly rising at the · pre-natal epoch, which gives him an
affectionate disposition and much intuition . This position
accounts for the poetic vein found in his character. He also
has a good musical ear.
His voyage to India was undertaken under the direction of
the Sun to the sextile of Venus, ruler of the ninth (the house of
voyages). This was followed by the conjunction of the Sun and
Mars at the epoch, which caused an attack of fever after he had
been a short time in India; this conjunction with Mars has not
yet expended all its force we judge.
His Moon is situated on the place of Madame Blavatsky's
Sun, and this has always been recognised as a strong link
between two persons. Madame Blavatsky was his personal
friend and teacher in occultism, and he lived in the same house-
hold with her for two years before her death. Her death and
that of his mother both happened on the same day.
It is also interesting to notice that his Moon is near "Alan
Leo's" Sun, while "Alan Leo's" Moon is close to "Aphorel's "
Sun. Hence the link between these writers.
ltbe lDegree&
of tbe Zobtacs~mbolt&eb.
GEMINI.
n 5° .-Two men, standing in a wood, in the act of fighting
a duel. Between them lies a rich purple and gold vesture
and a casket of jewels.
This indicates that the native will be of a jealous and
warlike nature, winning a competence for himself by great
hazards. He will make efforts at gaining wealth and
position, but will meet with opposition, and will either
succeed or perish in the attempt. This is a degree of chance.
,, 6° .-A woman stands, holding a book in one hand and
a pair of scales in the other.
It indicates a person of learning, sound reason, dispas-
sionate judgment, elegant manners, but cold and impassive
nature. Th .e native will succeed in his studies and pro-
fession, and will become famous, but not popular. He will
be rich, and will live to a good age. This is a degree of
judgment.
,, 7°.-A peaceful valley; a lake on which a swan is floating.
At the back rises a high mountain.
This indicates one of a generous, kind nature, full of
contentment and quiet happiness. One who will suffer but
few sorrows, and will have peace in all his relations. The
mind will be passive, calm, and thoughtful ; the manners
courteous and graceful, and the body elegant. The native
will have strong memory and small imaginative power.
This is a degree of peace.
,, 8° .-A house on fire at night-time.
It indicates that the native will be rash and warlike,
inclined to destruction, and successful therein beyond his
desires. He will be apt to stir up disputes among others,
and to bring desolation upon himself through a false sense
of security. His domestic life will be full of turmoil. It is
a degree of strife.
The increase of cholera in some parts of Europe has fulfilled our

predictions deduced from the planetary positions at the August luna-
tion. Our prediction that "illness will probably affect royal circles"
has been fulfilled in the death of the Duke of Coburg, brother of the
late Prince Consort, and hence brother-in-law to the Queen. The
Duke of Edinburgh has succeeded to the dukedom.
munbaneBstrolog~.
The Sun ( 0) enters Libra ( ~)

Sep. 22, 1893, at 7 h.46m.,p.m.
London.
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T HE planetary positions at the moment of the Sun's entry
into the celestial sign Libra are depicted in the above
figure. The position of the Moon in the eleventh is an argument
that the public are favourable to the parties in power; Jupiter,
although close to a trine of the royal orb, is retrograde, hence
much speculation will be prevalent ; but there will be many
schemes and bubbles burst ere they are accomplished. From
the position of Uranus and Venus in conjunction, there will be
much scandal, and, not improbable, crime amongst women; many
cases ripen for the divorce court, and a member of the legislative
assembly will be brought prominently forward in a cause celebre.
I anticipate much crime, especially to women and children,
many accidents in, matters relating to the fifth house, and much
sickness in the land, for the sixth house is heavily tenanted.
At New York, there will be heavy bills of mortality, several
persons of position join the majority. Scandals affecting clerics
or scientists will be brought to light ; there will be some ex-
ceptionally large failures during the period ruled by the ingress.
On July 28th, with the Moon applying to the opposition of the Sun,
and the square of Uranus, Mr. Grenfell, Liberal M.P. for Hereford,
wrote a letter announcing that he would resign his seat in Parliament.
On August 15th, with the Moon close to Saturn, his party lost his seat
at the Hereford election.
MUNDANE ASTROLOGY .
NEw MooN.
October 9th, 1893, 8-h., 27-m.,
p.m.
T HE above are the planetary positions at the moment of New

Moon. The conjoined luminaries are just separating from
conjunction with Saturn, the latter planet, with the lights being
in sesquiquadrate to Jupiter; Neptune is in similar aspect to
Mercury, whilst Saturn is semi-square to Venus. The figure is
remarkable for the satellitum in Libra in the fifth house, and it
portends much trouble in connection with places of amusements,
schools, and like places . There will be much speculation during
the month, with disastrous results •
.There will be many outrages on women during the month,
and much sickness; deaths in parliamentary circles , fires, and
an explosion is probable. The House of Lords is in bad odour,
inflammatory speeches and much excitement in connection with
it.
At New York, a heavy death rate and many accidents; much
excitement in political circles.
St. Petersburgh will experience much internal trouble, ex-
plosions, and much crime will characterise the month.
August 29th seems to have been a very malefic day. There was
a violent hurricane in America, attended with great loss of life ; a
great fire at Long Island, New York, where several hotels were burnt
down, and another fire at Marseilles by which 200 persons were
rendered homeless . The Moon that day was in opposition to both
Saturn and Venus, and Mars was very close to the Sun. .
prognosticationsbasebupontbe 'RulingSign.
CANCER.
T HE sign Cancer is ruled over by the Moon. It confers

upon the native a roaming life, much activity, constant
agitation, and much influence in the world. The manners of
the native will be somewhat curt and decisive ; apparently frank,
but secretive in many things, the native will inspire confidence.
A certain degree of method and rule will enter into the life.
Gifted with a fruitful imagination, he will be disposed to the
fantastic, and will incline very much -to romance, adventure, and
fiction. The memory is very good, the powers of understanding
keen, and the native will aspire to play the part of a hero, in-
spired by enthusiasm, imagination, or study. The temper is
changeful and capricious, now calm and benign, and again violent
and excitable. The native will cling very much to his friends
and relatives, and will never be able to go on long without their
sympathy and support. Nevertheless, there will be a certain
degree of independence and self-assertion. The native will be
generous, and gifted in many directions, with superior intelligence.
The native is liable to be disturbed by nervous irritability, and
unreasonable excitement, due to extreme sensitivity.
Cancer confers on the native much aptitude for general trans-
actions, diplomacy, and command. It gives a love of position,
power, honour, and these come readily to the native. It confers,
also, religious fervour, the spirit of eclecticism, versatility, and
industry. Those born under Cancer are more fortunate if born
during the months from July to November. It renders the native
peculiarly uncertain in some things, and he may be dauntless,
light-hearted, and unassailable one day, and the next may find
him lacking in self-confidence, cautious, timid, and depressed.
This peculiar characteristic makes the native to rouse himself
very suddenly, and the explosion of temper is as rapidly succeeded
by a calm of the most serene nature. The native will be very
subject to the phases of the Moon, and if the Moon-be rising, or
in a movable sign, he will be a somnambulist, and will walk in
his sleep.
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Wealth will be difficult to acquire, and relatives will waste

much of his substance. In speculations he will be equally un-
fortunate, but in the latter half of life he will be more fortunate.
During youth, he will experience difficulties in his profession, or
studies, will have troubles through relatives, and no doubt loss of
brothers, or sisters, as the case may be. A member of the family
will become estranged. The native often leaves his own people
and adopts another family from among his friends. Children will
give much anxiety, and will suffer from the force of untoward
circumstances, except the first, who will rise to a good position,
and may adopt some scientific profession. Losses and troubles
during life will arise from two sources chiefly, and always there
will be some tendency to mystery about them, for at the most
unexpected moment relief of a providential and unforeseen nature
will come to set matters right.
Persons born under this sign are not much disposed to
marriage, and marry only late in life, if at all. Frequently,
marriage will take place earlier, to one much older in years, and
the union will be fraught with troubles and strife. Advantages,
not without great difficulties being overcome, however, may arise
from the first marriage.
The native will often travel, taking frequent and long voyages,
and although losses will inevitably occur, the native will come out
of them with subsequent profit and eclat, gaining honours by
his adventures. Sudden and frequent change; of occupation are
to be expected.
Dangers by treachery and violence will be imminent, especially
about the age of 14, 26, or 38 years.
Up till 35 years, the fortunes will be unsettled, but after then
success will come apace.
The native will have many friends, supporters, and advocates,
especially among women, but one of them will turn away, and
the native will suffer in consequence. Secret enemies will cause
much trouble and anxiety, and injuries therefrom will be ex-
perienced at 20, 32, and 44 years of age.
The health will be generally good, and the parts most likely
to be affected are the bowels, stomach, and blood. The arms are
subject to accidents, and there is danger of gunshot or wounds
thereto. There is danger of physical injury inflicted during a
struggle, or in battle, if the native be a soldier.
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"CASAEL'S" HORARY ASTROLOGY.

S1R,-l am surprised on reading Mr. Casael's reply to my queries
to find he is so touchy. First let me say I am not a professional
astrologer, but only a student, who seeks information on points that I
do not understand. I am not questioning the veracity of Casael,
although, in my opinion, in this case he appears by his own words to
know all about the persons, so that Horary Astrology seems to me
unnecessary. But as he says he is content to be a follower of Lilly,
and only takes heed of what Lilly authorised, I will endeavour to prove
by Lilly's writings that he is a quibbler. I have but few books on
astrology, one being Bohn's edition of Lilly, by "Zadkiel," and from
that I will quote.
On page 31, Lilly says the seventh house has signification "in
astrology of the artist himself." On page 123, chap. xxvi. "On an
absent brother," Lilly says: "the first, its lord and ) are for the
querent; the third, for the quesited; the fourth, his (the brother's)
house of substance," etc.
From Mr. Casael's statements it seems a female propounded the
two questions on page 245, therefore, according to Lilly, the ascendant
( $) and its ruler ()) is her significator . The seventh house (11'),
ruled by ? (according to Lilly), signifies the artist (Casael), and yet
he gives as his reason "the Moon is leaving Venus," etc. According
to Lilly's rules, Venus has nothing to do with it. Casael, on question
1, is found faulty, according to Lilly's rules.
2.-See what Lilly says, which I have mentioned above, and, in
addition, Lilly states that 0 is detrimented .in :::::,although he does
not mention the r.i ; but if Casael is content to be Lilly's follower and
not his improver, why does he use W? But let that go, I will consider
question 2 not proved.
3.-Casael decidedly quibbles on this and evades the question. I
again ask him if the ninth house of the figure is not the brother's
seventh, and to give his reasons out of any author as to::::: or* ruling
America. Never mind about the volumes of theory, let Mr. Casael
give a decided answer, if able, and leave the facts of what he knew
the brother did.
4.-As in question 3, Casael evades the point. May I ask him if
Lilly (page 48) does not consider Mercury masculine or feminine
according as he is joined to any planet ? In this case ~ is O 0
(decidedly masculine); is the 0 considered a masculine or a feminine
planet by Casael, and is not ~ thus masculine in ::: a masculine sign,
and in the ninth a masculine house?
5.-Why does Casael take) at all in this ques~ion? The Moon
rules the brother's tenth, and has nothing to do with the question at
issue, for this is what I cannot understand, according to my little
knowledge. His other reasons on this que~tion are in agreement with
his author (Lilly), excet:>tas regards I§, which Lilly had no knowledge
of, as far as I know.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR . 71
Let ine assure Mr. Casael I am not jealous, I only seek knowledge,
and on Horary Astrology I consider men like himself, "Nemo,"
Hatfield, Henry, and "Raphael," should, and I think do, as a rule,
ma.ke _things fairly cle3:r fo_rtis stu_de!1ts; _but if anything ~hey may
wnte 1s not so clear as-it might be, 1t 1s their duty to make 1t plain if
asked for respectfully as I have done. Might I ask our friend "Raphael,"
with your permission, Mr. Editor, to give his opinion of the judgment
of the figure. - Yours sincerely, CANDID.
[NoTE BY Eo.-As there is likely to be some controversy on the
judgment of the horary figure by Mr. Casael to which our corres-
pondent "Candid" takes exception, we think it well, as Mr.
Casael quotes Lilly, to give a figure by that great artist and his
judgment on a similar que.,tion, which we have taken from Bohn's
"Lilly," page 129. We do this on the principle of "fair play and
no favour," so that all interested may form an unbiassed opinion].
Friday, November 7th, 1645.
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./'<f.o Hora Meridiana Question .
'Y' ;,s<,
/"L--<-s-oo-_<_8_, ___ q_o~-":,ij-'
Questions regarding an absent brother.

1st.-!/ living or dead? if dead, whether killed by soldiers? for at this time
our miserablekingdom was full of soldiers. .
2nd.-!/ living, when he should hear of him? and where he was?
3rd.-When he should come home?
First query.-!/ living or dead?
The ascendant doth here represent the shape and form of ~im
who asked the que~tion, with consideration had to 7 , lord of the sign.
The querent was lean, spare ?f body, a real saturn~ne man, &c.
~ is the ascendant of the third house, and ~ bemg lady thereof
represented the absent brother. . .
~ the significator of the quesited, being noways aflhcted, ~1th~r
by ~ , lord of the eighth in the figure? or ,! , lord. of the ques1ted s
eighth; and the separation of the ) bemg .good, viz., a t:, of 2J.and
0 ~ , who is in good aspect to 2J.,and gomg to d _of 0 on cusp of
the mid-heaven, I judged the absent brother was ahve, and had no
manner of accident, but was in good health.
Second query .-Whm he should hear of him?
~ , lady of the third, applies to a friendly t:, of 7, lord of the
ascendant ; ·and 7 being n.,
applies also to the aspect of ~ ; a very
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.
good argument that the querent should hear news of his brother very
suddenly, and if you look into the Ephemeris for November 7th, 1645,
you will find that about 4 o'clock, on that very day, the 1::,. aspect be-
tween ? and ? was formed. I therefore advised the querent to go
to the carriersof those countries where he knew his brother ha.d been,
and ask when they saw the quesited, for I told him that it was probable
that he would hear of him that very day (he has sinceconfidentlyaffirmed
that about the very momentof time, viz., about 4 o'clock,a carriercamecasually
where he was and informed him that his brotherwas living and in health).
Third query.-Where he was? · ·
His journey was in the west. At the time of the question I find
? , his significator, leaving 1, a north-east sign, and entering~. a
south sign ; whereon I judged he was in the south-east part of the
country unto which he went. And as ? was not far out,of the ascen-
dant, and was in the Oriental quarter of heaven, that he was not above
one or two days' journey from London; and as ? was leaving 1 and
entering a sign in which she has dignities by triplicity and term, I judged
the man was leaving the country where he had no possession or habi-
tation, and was coming to his own house in London where he had good
• property. As ? wanted one degree of getting out of the sign, I judged
he would be at home in less than one week, for 1 is a common sign,
and one degree therein in this question might well denote one week.
He came home on the following Tuesday, when ) came to d ~ , she
being then got into ~ in her own term, and diurnal triplicity. The two
significators being in t:,., these two brothers did, and do, live very
amicably together.
EXALTATIONS.
SIR,-1 do not think "Raphael's" letter quite removes the diffi-
culty "Sepharial" called attention to. "Raphael's" Guide, Vol. II.,
and Pearce's Scienceof the Stars, both give the planets as exalted in
certain signs and degrees, and both lists agree. The Brihat Jataka
also gives a table of the planets exalted in signs and degrees. The
signs are the same as those given by" Raphael" and Mr. Pearce, but
the degrees mentioned are partly the same and partly not. But even
if they agreed in every detail, it would be no proof of accuracy,
because they refer to different zodiacs. When the Brihat Jataka says
that the sun is exalted in 10° Aries, it means, roughly, 30° Aries, in
terms of our zodiac. And when it says that Saturn is exalted in 20°
Libra, it means about 10° Scorpio in our zodiac. The fact that the
two tables are similar on the surface, but differ in reality, seems to me
to show that they are both unreliable. The one list may have been
carelessly copied from the others ceuturies ago, without the difference
between the two zodiacs being realised.
There are several very important and apparently irregular sensitive
points in our zodiac, which I hope will soon be made public by their
discoverer. It is possible that the degrees of exaltation may have
been somehow derived from these originally.
LEO (H. S. G.)
answers to <torresponbents.
SIDNEY RoACH,Smith Street.-Please send full particulars of date,
time, and place of the child's birth.
st, n qz;.-" Sepharial" is in India, your letter has been sent to him,
see pages 15 and 37.
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OURuponcontemporary (Pearce) does not confine his attacks
us to petty meanness, for, not satisfied with exposing
the private names of my colleagues-an insult unworthy of any
true astrologer-he this month allows us to be charged with
being sorely deficient in education, by a person who must be very
Wild(e) every time he reads our Magazine. I can imagine this
person's feelings towards us whenever I read his letter on page
164, Vol. III. What can students think of a man who blows hot
and cold by turns ? If he knew the amusement his silly letters
create, I think he would improve his education. For my part,
I never boast of education ; neither has anyone connected with
the Magazine. that I am aware of, but I think we have brains
enough to handle a very difficult science successfully, notwith-
standing the deficiency of education that is attributed to us. As
yet, no attempt has been made · to criticise our judgment. Now
this is the part of astrologia sana that proves the astrologer, not
his occasional mistakes in figures, which everyone is liable to.
These silly attacks of our contemporary are in reality beneath
my notice, for I would much prefer to treat such cantankerous
people with silent contempt, but I love astrology, and the number
of friends I have made in connection with it will not allow me to
let pass the statement that we have dragged astrology through the
mire, for the reverse of this statement is the truth, which the tone
and style of the Magazine proves. I am aware, as our friends point
out, that our contemporary's circulation is so small, that it is
waste of time to notice his remarks, but I think it lamentable
that anyone believing in the broadening influence of astrology
should be so narrow-minded. Our united influence should place
astrology on a firmer basis with the masses and strengthen our
knowledge of its glorious truths, but our differences can only
bring upon us ridicule from those who know nothing whatever of
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the science. If our opponents will only confine their attacks to

fair, honourable, and sensible criticism, they will not only merit
the approval of every student, but have respect and courtesy shown
them by everyone connected with the A .M., the . first and the
last periodical to uphold true astrology. I must also refer to
another remark that I do not approve of; the Astrologers'Magazine
is neither an official or unofficial organ of Theosophists ; we are
unbiassed in our religious beliefs, and welcome every view that
will throw new light upon astrology, whether it be from Theoso-
phists, Christians, or Jews. Our characters and lives may be
seen by everyone who has the brains to judge a nativity if they
refer to the photo-horoscopes of ourselves now appearing in the
present volume. These will prove whether we seek truth or not,
and are far more reliable than the puerile remarks of opponents.
. ALAN LEO .
3nfanttlemortaltt\?.
Edward E. was born in Stafford, just after 4 a.m., April 9th,
1885, and died Nov. 10th, 1885, of diarrhcea.
M.C. 11 12 interc. asc. interc. 2nd 3rd
1 19 \l';S'6 :::: o :X:45
\l';S'25 'Y' o0 8 0° n
019 'Y' 28,) 6:::: 35, ~ 8 8 38, ~ 12 'Y' 27, d 7 'Y' 27, '4 26 st 5 E<,
? 19 n 38, W o ~ 5·
Sun is sextile Saturn and trine M.C.
At death the Moon has progressed to 13°:::: 42 1 sesquiquadrate
Herschel, just separated from * ~ and after leaving W· applies
to* 0 and t::,.?.
The process shows M.C. prog. to 8 ? exact, just separated
from t::,.0, but the processed asc. is in square to Satuni in the
fourth, ruling the stomach.
The processed Sun will be 7 8 o L ?. The process of
Moon 24°::::, applying 8 '4 sep. L J' •
Female born 5.35 a.m., Dec. 21st, 1890, lat. 53° N., died
Feb. 6th, 1892.
M.C. 11th. 12th. ascen. interc. 2nd. 3rd.
nJl 2J ~ 21° 12 28 111.
111. 42 / \l'j' I 13°
::::
0 29 1 26,) 29 'Y' 34, ~ 17 \l'j' 22, ~ 4 1 38 E<,d 3 * 8, '4 12:::: 13,

? 170 llJl 9', W o 111.29, qt 4 n 44 :&.
At death Moon had progre!"sed to 28 8, the only aspect "he
forms is 8 ascendant. The processed asc. is 2° :::: exact l;J ? ,
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This child suffered severely ; it became very emaciated.
Erysipelas, followed by inflammation, caused her death.
The processed Moon is n 4 ° d tU o 6' and 8 ? .
The 0 processed r.i '? 6 1U* ? , but the Moon has chief
rule of eighth house.
Female C. L., born at II h. 38 m. p.m., March 15th, 1889.

Brixton, S.W., died Dec. 23rd, 1890, suddenly.
M.C. I 1th. 12th. asc. 2nd. 3rd.
nJt 17 :!le 17° lfl 8° lfl 25° I 27 ::::8
0 25 * 25,) 6 llJt I8, ~ 28° IO'::::, !j! 8° 8, 6' 20 <y>II, 2f.51')' 52,
? 14 Sl, 12 ~. w 20 :!le 58 ~-
The Moon here rules the eighth house, and against 6 2f. and
6 ? is L W and Q 6', at the time of death the only affliction is
processed Moon, semisquare Saturn processed Sund 6', 8 W·
Ida L. was born at 3.33} a.m., 13th July, 1891, died just six
weeks after of hremophilia, see page 403. The planetary
positions are as follows :-
asc. 2nd. 3rd. 5th. interc.6th.
14 Qo 45 Sl, I 9° Sl, :!le 190 ll1.I 5
0 20° Qo 251 ,) 8° :!le 30', ~ Qo 27° 16', !j! l!i5 2° II', 6' Qo 25° 47',
2f. 17* 58 ~. ? llJt 13. 21, W :!le 27° 19, t n 8.6.
The affliction in the figure is ? 8 M.C. W o ~ 0 appg. d 6'.
The ordinary directions in this case produce nothing, but the
processed places of the planets reveal a great deal, and are as
follow:-
Ase. Qo 18° 30', 0 <io24° 10',) :!!: 12° 151 , ~ Sl, 1° 1', ? Qo 6°,
*
6' 29° 1!i5 15', ? llJt 19° 16', 2f. 21.43, JDllJ. IQ 4'.
0 applies d 6', ~ still squares W, 6' is L ? .
The second reading of the Home Rule Bill began in the House of
Lords on September 5th. The Moon was then in square to Saturn,
and was on the cusp of the twelfth house of the figure for the first
introduction of the Bill into the House of Commons. We gave
particulars of this· figure in our issue for March, 1893, page 189. The
Bill was finally rejected on September 8th, when the Moon was in
very close opposition to the place of the Sun at the first introduction
of the Bill.
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Heath, will shortly appear.
ttbe <talenbarSimplttleb.
THE following simple rules for finding some of the elements
of the calendar will no doubt be of service to astrological
students.
I. To find the day of the week for any date in the 19th
century:-
TABLE OF CONSTANTS.
YEAR.
Decade. 0 1 2 3 I 6 6 7 8 9
0 0 I 2 3 5 6 0 I 3 4
I. 5 6 l 2 3 4 6 0 I 2
II. 4 5 6 0 2 3 4 5 0 I
III. 2 3 5 6 0 I 3 4 5 6
IV. I 2 3 4 6 0 I 2 4 5
V. 6 0 2 3 4 5 0 I 2 3
VI. 5 6 0 I 3 4 5 6 I 2
VII. 3 4 6 0 I 2 4 5 6 0
VIII. 2 3 4 5 0 I 2 3 5 6
IX . 0 I 3 4 5 6 I 2 3 4
MONTH.
January 3. May ,4• September I.
Feburary 6. June o. October 3·

March 6. July 2, November 6.
April 2. August 5. December I.
RULE.-To the date of month add the constant for the

and also the constant for the year. Divide by 7. The remainder
is the day of the week required.
N.B.-For an y Leap-year (except1800) subtract I if the date
falls before the 29th of February.
Example.-Required day of week for 13th August, 1842.
13+5+3 = 21 + 7 = o or 7 i.e., Saturday.
The constant for the year is found in the table by looking
along the "tens" (Roman figures), and under the "units"
(Arabic figures). Thus 1867=6 tens and 7 units, which gives
the constant 6 as that for the year 1867.
II. To find the Moon's age on any date in any year during
the Christian Era.
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TABLE OF CONSTANTS.
January o. May 2. September 7.
February I. June 3. October 7.
March o. July 4. November 9.
April I. August 5. December 9.
RULE 1.-Divide the given year by 19, multiply the remainder
by II, and divide the result by 30. This will give the epact for
the year.
2. To the epact add the date of month, and the constant
for the month in the above table; divide the sum by 30. This
will be the Moon's age.
Example.-Required the Moon's age for the 10th March, 1893.
(r.) 1893 + 19 = 99 + (12 remainder). Therefore the epact
for 1893 is XII.
(2.) Epact = 12
Date = IO
Const. for Mar.= o
Sum = 22
which, being less than 30, is the Moon's age for the
date given.
III. To find the degree of the zodiac on the meridian at any
time. This, which is only a rough rule, will often prove very
useful for general purposes.
RULE r.-From the given date subtract 3 months 20 days,
and call the result signs and degrees. This will give the mid-
heaven at noon on the given date.
2. For the meridian at a given p.m. time. First take the
hours, and for every hour add 15° to the longitude at noon, or for
every 2 hours add I sign. Then take the minutes and · divide
by 4. This will give so many more degrees to be added. The
result will be the required longitude on the meridian.
Example.-Required the longitude on the meridian at
5.20 p.m., 18th May.
mo. date.
5 18
3 20
1 28 = 1• 28° past 'Y' oQ 8 28° is the M.C. at noon
on the 18th May.
5 hours = 2• 15Q
20 mins. = 5Q
THE CALENDAR SIMPLIFIED,
1 sign 28° + 2 signs 20° = 4 signs 18° ; which gives S\, 18° on the
meridian at 5.20 p.m. on .the 18th May.
N.B.-If the given hour is a.m., its equivalent in signs aod
degrees must be subtracted from the longitude on the M.C.
at noon.
JV. To find the Moon's longitude on any date in the
Christian Era.
RULE.-Having found the Moon's age (by Rule II.) for the
given date, and the Sun's longitude at noon (by Rule III.) ;
multiply the Moon's age by 12 which will give so many degrees
to be added to the Sun's longitude at nooo. The result will be
the Moon's longitude on the given date.
Example.-By Rule II., the Moon's age on the 10th March,
1893, was found to be 22 days. By Rule III., the Sun's
longitude at noon is seen to be * 20°. The Moon's age,
22 x 12 = 264° = 8 signs 24°, which added to* 20° gives 114°.
The Moon was, therefore, in the middle of I when the Sun
was in * 20° on the 10th March, 1893.
All the above rules are simple, and are given as guides for
those who wish to make calculations for remote dates to which
the almanacs do not reach. SEPHARIAL .
We extract the following from "Clothed with the Sun; being the
book of the illuminations of Anna Bonus Kingsford," a book we can
strongly recommend all interested in occultism to read :-
" The process of incarnation, and the method by which the soul
takes new forms, are in this wise. When two persons ally themselves
in flesh and beget a child, the moment of impregnation is usually-
though 11otinvariably-the moment which attaches a soul to the newly
conceived body. Hence, much depends upon the influences, astral
and magnetic, under which impregnation and conception take place.
The pregnant woman is the centre of a whirl of magnetic forces, and
she attracts within her sphere a soul whose previous conduct and odic
condition correspond either to her own or to the magnetic influences
under which she conceives. This soul, if the pregnancy continues
and progresses, remains attached to her sphere, but does not enter
the embryo until the time of quickening, when it usually takes
possession of the body, and continues to inhabit it until _the time of
delivery. A pregnant woman is swaved, not by her own will alone,
but as often by the will of the soul newly attached to her sphere;
and the opposition and cross-magnetisms of these two wills often
occasion many strange and seemingly unaccountable whims, alterna -
tions of character, and longings, on the part of the woman. Some-
times, however, the moment of impregnation or conception passes
without attracting any soul, and the woman may even carry a false
conception for some time, in which cases abortion occurs. There are
innumerable accidents which may happen in this regard. Or, the
soul, which has been attracted to her, may, under new influences, be
withdrawn from her sphere, and from the embryo, which, having
quickened, may consume away; or, the soul originally drawn to her
orbit may be replaced later by another, and so forth."
tu.
ttermtnustl)ttre.-'Aapoleon
NAPOLEON III.
Died II.15 a.m., January 9th,
1873, near London.
N APOLEON III. died of stone in the bladder, he was to

have undergone an operation the same day, but died
rather suddenly. At birth, he had 13<>\,J2' rising; therefore, at
his death, the Sun and Saturn were in conjunction on his
ascendant, with Mars in square from Libra.
In this death figure, Saturn is in the mid-heaven, as at birth,
and the signification of the position has been sufficiently dwelt
upon by various astrologers. His ambition, and the height to
which attained, are symbolised by the position of the Sun in the
tenth; the unscrupulous nature of that ambition, the means by
which alone he kept his throne-martial force-and the dramatic
suddenness and completeness of his downfall, are all shewn in
the afflictions of the Sun, which is in conjunction with Saturn,
in square to Mars, and void of good aspects. A perjured mur-
derer when he ascended the throne, his downfall was by force of
arms in battle, here signified by the square from Mars, ruler of
the seventh house. It is worth noticing that Mars is in the sixth
house here as at the death of the first Napoleon.
He is said to have been a believer in spiritualism, and those
misguided theologians (still with us) who saw in him the em-
bodiment of Anti-Christ, found in this circumstance a strong
80 TERMINUS VIT~.
corroboration of their suspicions. We have noticed that

mediumship is often accompanied by a prominence of the Moon
and Saturn, and generally an affliction of both. In this man's
birth figure he had Saturn in the mid-heaven squaring the Moon
in the ascendant; with Uran us in the ninth. In the present
figure, there is Saturn strong in his own sign and in the mid-
heaven, in parallel declination with the Moon and with Mercury,
the latter in the ninth. This is sufficiently in accordance with
that superstitious tendency to the occult which he is said to
have possessed in common with his uncle, the first Napoleon.
The presence of Mars in Libra, governing the kidneys, in
square to the Sun, is characteristic of the disease which killed
him.
It is worth remembering that he was once a prisoner at a
fortress in France, and that he escaped therefrom in the disguise
of a workman, with a plank over his shoulder. Here we have
Jupiter, ruler of the twelfth, in detriment, afflicted by the Sun,
Moon, and Venus ; but Venus is well placed in Pisces on the
cusp of the twelfth, and therefore not unsuitably indicates relief
from imprisonment.
With regard to the operation that was to have been performed
upon him, the doctor is indicated by the seventh house, and its
ruler Mars is debilitated and afflicted, and therefore can render
no help.
The unlucky Camperdown,which collided with H.M.S. Victoria on

the 22nd of June, has had another mishap. On September 25, when
coming out of Malta Harbour, she grounded near the entrance, due to
an accident to the steering gear. Fortunately no harm was done
and she was floated off safely. The Moon at the time was entering
Aries in opposition to the places of Jupiter and Uranus at the launch-
ing, which took place at Portsmouth, 0.50 p.m., on the 24th of
November, 1885.
* * * * *
Dr. Falb's weather forecasts have, up to the present, proved
failures, at least so far as England is concerned. He was quite
correct in predicting an "exceptionally dry month·· for May, but we
can only smile when we see predicted a "heavy rainfall throughout
July, August, and September." The first two, at least, of those
months were remarkably dry, as the farmers found to their cost. Of
all the theories and predictions anent the weather, those by Hugh
Clements-to which we referred last June-seem to us to come
nearest the mark and to be the most reasonable. We think that if
weather forecasts are ever to be a general success, it will be upon the
lines he indicates, combined perhaps with a greater attention to
planetary influence.
mobernBstrologers.
No. IV.-" LEO" (H. S. G.)
0
'0
T HE subject of our photo-horoscope was born on September

16th, 1861, about 3 a.m., exact minute not known, in lat.
52° 38 N., long. 5 min. E.
1
He is about 6 feet in height, brown hair, moustache and

beard light coloured, eyes bluish grey.
The 26th degree of the regal sign Leo ascends with the fixed
star Regulus near the cusp.
A notable feature in the horoscope is the satellitum (or
stellium) of planets in Virgo in the second house, including Mars
and Saturn ruling the fourth, fifth, and ninth. This will, under
evil directions, produce heavy financial losses.
For his astrological and occult tastes and ability we have
Uranus in elevation in a scientific sign in trine to the Moon.
E 2
82 MODERN ASTROLOGERS.-"LEO 11 (H. S. G.)
This invariably gives great inclination for the mystical, and as

the Moon is in a scientific sign and has a deal to do with the
eleventh house, the majority of his friends are in occult circles,
or study the occult sciences, but be it noted that as Uran us is
in square to the Sun ruling the ascendant, and Neptune opposed
to Mercury, ruling the financial house, his occult pursuits and his
financial prospects are decidedly at variance. From a child he
has been drawn to the occult side of nature, and his discoveries
of pre-natal directions and the significance of the death figures,
of which he has contributed to these pages so many admirable
examples, may be ascribed to the aspects between the Moon and
Uranus.
Mars, who rules the ninth house, being in square to Uranus,
conjunction Sun, (ruling ascendant), and Saturn, is strongly in
evidence as to his religious ideas, which are decidedly unorthodox,
and have been so from childhood.
Jupiter ruling the eighth house being in elevation above and
conjunction with the two malefics Mars and Saturn, somewhat
abates their malice, and seems to promise a legacy.
Venus strong in the third denotes the love of poetry, and as
this house has reference to letters, writings, magazines, he
delights in reading, writing, and contributing to periodicals
whose tastes and associations are in sympathy with his own.
H!s present avocation is one signified by Mars. The strong
sign rising points to a fairly good constitution, but he has suffered
much from throat affections, which is evidently signified by the
presence of the malefics in the second house (governing the
throat), yet notice Taurus (ruling the throat) is not afflicted.
The ruler of the fourth being a malefic and afflicted does not
foreshadow a very happy termination of life. He is a vegetarian,
teetotaller, and a confirmed bachelor, and he suggestively says
he shall remain so, Karma permitting. As will be noticed, fixed
signs hold the angles, four planets are in scientific ones, and five
in common. This latter gives an unsettled disposition, and
denotes one prone to change.
Fixed signs seem to be characteristic of this magazine. It
will be noticed that "Aphorel," "Alan Leo" and "Leo" are all
born under fixed signs, and that " Sepharial " (born under a
common sign), has the lord of the ascendant, the Moon and the
rulers of the ninth house and the mid-heaven in fixed signs.
Moreover this magazine was started in 1890 on the day when
Digitized by Google
THE STUDENTS' CORNER.
the Sun entered its own fixed sign I.,.eo,evidently pre-sigmfying

the firm hold it has obtained upon popular favour. If the
aspects on the day of publication are noted, and either " Leo's "
or "Alan Leo's " figure taken as the basis, it will be noticed that
the lord of the ascendant, 0, is in conjunction with the lord of
the second, ~ , and in trine to the lord of the ninth, o . If
"Aphorel's" figure is taken as the skeleton, lord of ascendant
trines lord of ninth. If "Sepharial's" horoscope is taken, the
lord of the ascendant, 2f., is in trine to the Moon, the latter
being in his ninth house. An "Election" was made for publica-
tion of the A.M.
ltbe Stubents'<torner.
BY " RAPHAEL.''
THE INFLUENCE OF HERSCHEL.
T HE influence of this planet is extraordinary and difficult to

explain. When strong in the nativity, rising, or in the third ·
or ninth (the latter more than the former), the native has sudden
changes in his feelings; one minute free and joky, the next quiet
and reserved, and if in company with such a person, you will
experience a decided feeling that he likes your room better than
your company. These changes occur suddenly and without
apparent cause. In short, he is a most difficult person to under-
stand. His nervous system is in a high state of tension, and
impressionsstrike him rapidly and sharp. The best way to deal
with such characters is not to force them, but simply leave
them alone, or treat them with silent but respectful unconcern,
when they will soon become sociable .
Another marked trait in their characteris independence. Upon
the slightest cause or provocation they will quarrel with their
best frien_ds, and die rather than eat humble pie. They do not
admire liars, and are usually truthful themselves. The influence
of W on the morals or inclinations is singular. What the native
would scorn to do one day he may think about the next, and do
it the following.
Exception has been taken to some of the remarks in my Key
on the influence of this planet over fomales, and of course there
are exceptions, as, for instance, when a fixed sign is rising
(Sl or :: especially) and the ) is well aspected by 2f., and the
fifth and seventh houses free from affliction. I agree with the
THE ST0DENTS 1 CORNER.
writer that 0 t:,. W often conduces to an early marriage. A

young lady I knew was married at sixteen. She threatened to
kill herself if her parents did not consent. Her husband was ten
years older. Witness also the Duke and Duchess of Fife. The
Duke is old enough to be her father !
I should be glad if some of your readers would suggest sub-
jects on Astrology, on which they would like my opinion or more
information. I am often hard up for a suitable subject.
RAPHAEL.
P.S.-Some merry-making has resulted from the remark,

page 50 of my Messengerfor 1893, where I state that the ancients
knew of the existence of W. Whatever may be the opinion of
of this flippant writer, whose mental vision seems bounded by
19th century conceit, it is my firm. belief that Sir W. Herschel
simply re-discoveredit in 1781. Neptune, also, was known to the
ancients of thousands of years ago. There is also an inter-
mercurial planet which the astronomers have not yet found.
Will this writer state why the Moons of Herschel and Neptune
move in a contrary direction to those of the other planets ? If
he cannot do this, he had better hold his peace.
On the 21st of September, at about 0-45 a.m., a double murder

and suicide took place at London. Leo Percy, through jealousy,
shot Miss Montague and Mr. Garcia and then committed suicide.
Leo was rising at the time, governing the heart, and the Sun, its
ruler, was in conjunction with Mars and Mercury, while Venus was
detrimented in Scorpio in conjunction with Uranus. Here is a picture
of the passions aroused and the great mental excitement which led to
the crime.
Our correspondent " Isis" sends us two figures of interest. One

is for a railway accident at New York which occurred at II.42 p.m.
on the 26th August. Sixteen persons were killed. The Sun, ruling
the third house (railways), is in conjunction with the fiery Mars in
the fourth house, the Moon being in opposition to both.. The train
was filled with a party who had been out on a pleasure excursion,
and accordingly we note that Saturn is in the fifth house (pleasure)
in conjunction with Venus. The other figure is for a fire at London
at 7.10 a.m. 4th Sept., 1893, by which five persons were burnt to
death. The figure shows Saturn lord of the fourth (houses) rising,
in conjunction with Venus, ruling tbe ascendant, and the Sun is in
conjunction with Mars in the twelfth, Mars ruling the eighth house
(death).
itbe 1'oroscopeof tbe :13omba~
Bstrological
soctetv.
The Bombay Astrological Society

Founded 10-h., 35-min., a .m.,
Dec. 18, 1892, Bombay. ..,o~
T HE horoscope for the founding of this society is a character-

istic one, and we think the time has not been inaptly
chosen. The ruler of the ascendant and mid-heaven is the
greater benefic Jupiter, who is located in the house of w~alth in
a cardinal sign, in close trine aspects to Mercury and the Moon
posited in the house of honour in the fiery Sagittarius (whom he
"disposes" of). The ninth house is significant of the science,
for is not the occult sign Scorpio on the cusp, and the occult
planet Uranus strong therein ? Uran us and Venus, the latter
ruling the third house (literature, science, also the eighth house),
are in conjunction, and these planets are in trine to their "dis-
poser" Mars, the planet of energy, who is in the ascendant;
these positions and aspe~t augur well for the energy that will
animate the members, and we look for good and useful work
from the society . The "mutual reception" between the rulers
of the ascendant and second house is an argument that the
necessary funds will not be wanting, and as a cardinal sign is on
the cusp o"rthe house of friends (the eleventh house), and Saturn
the ruler thereof is in a cardinal sign, which is also the sign of
his "exaltation," seems to point to many friends of high social
standing and attainments. From the fact of a "common" sign
rising, we consider that the system of study used at the com-
mencement, will undergo many changes, and from the fact of the
86 THE DEGREES OF THE ZODIAC SYMBOLISED.
ruler of the fourth house being on the mid-heaven we judge that

the members will bring many hidden things to light. That
notable mathematicians will be members of the society is borne
out by the position of Jupiter, if the Hindu aphorism is correct,
and if we take the mid-heaven and its ruler for the president and
the ruler of the fourth as the vice-president, we find that the
former gentleman is, or should be, a notable mathematician, and
as the ruler of the fourth is in the house of and in mutual
reception with his dispositor, he also possesses similar quali-
fications. As the Moon is in conjunction with Mercury, trine
Jupiter, and sextile to Saturn, their judgment will be good, and
they will be patient and steadfast in unravelling the problems
connected with the science.
They will have some public enmity to contend with, as
Mercury ruling seventh is in MC., and some of their number will
be scandalised, but as Jupiter "disposes" of Mercury, little harm
will result, and the society will benefit from such enmity.
If we take the third and ninth houses and their rulers for the
secretary and lecturers, they are well qualified for their posts,
the fixed signs shewing the determination they will put forth in
their writings and public utterances.
We wish the society a long career of usefulness, and trust
their researches and investigations will be crowned with success.
Ube JDegreesof tbe Zobtac$~mbolt&eb.
GEMINI (continud.)
n 9° .- The figure of a woman holding a globe in one hand
and a sceptre in the other.
It indicates wide knowledge and power ; a position of
importance ; a mind fit for governing, and a position of
security after middle life. There are indications of pride
and self-love in this symbol; but dignity, conscientiousness,
and self-reliance are prominent features in the character.
It is a degree of dominion.
,, 10°.-A woman of pleasing appearance stands offering a
glass of some fluid to a child.
THE DEGREES OF THE ZODIAC SYMBOLISED, 87
It indicates that the person born under this degree wilt
have a kind, sympathetic nature, able and willing to help
Jhe sick and needy; one whose knowledge of human nature,
of arts and sciences, will be thorough and well used. The
nature is gentle and benevolently hopeful and inspiring, and
disposed to self-sacrifice. This is a degree of healing.
n n°.-A group of vagrants or gipsies, seated round a caul-
dron, in which food is preparing.
This denotes a person of alien nature, whose fortunes
will be fickle, and whose happiness will be centred in his
family. Withal, there is a tinge of sensuousness in the
nature, disposing to excess in the satisfaction of the
appetites. This person will leave his native land and
wander over the world, never satisfied with things as they
are; but ever seeking, he will leave many golden opportuni-
ties behind. It is a degree of excess.
,, 12°.-A young laurel tree, broken by the wind, and withered.
, The native will be of a hopeful and honourable character,
full of projects for the future, but will lose many opportuni-
ties through misfortunes. unforseen. His affections will be
sincere, but fate will be against him in this respect, and few
things in his life will come to maturity. Expected honours
will be snatched from him, and the flowers of life will wither
in his hand. Let him practice self-restraint and encourage
contentment. This is a degree of (sfiorezza) spoliation.
,, 13°.-Two wolves are devouring a carcase in the moonlight.
It indicates one of a crafty, subtle nature, avaricious,
given to treaties and associations of a dangerous character;
secretive, revengeful, and of a quick temper. The native
will lead a roaming, unsettled life. This degree is fatal to
one born while the Sun is above the earth. It is a degree
of voradty and self-seeking.
,, 14°.-A man in a mask stands beneath the shadow of a tree
at night. At his feet there is a dead cow.
It denotes a _person of a wily nature, acquisitive, and
disposed to use doubtful means in the pursuit of wealth.
The native will show an excess of caution and self-regard,
out he is liable to be deceived in his own powers. This is
a degree of plunder.
(To be continued.)
Ube"'l.tfe"of tbe 'Wleatber-"~laneta~force."
(Continued from page 58.)
I N that
putting forth this hypothesis of" life" and "force," I know
it is so contrary to the popular ideas of weather action
that my readers may reasonably think that I am draw1ng largely
upon my own imagination-and theirs. Such is not the case.
A few moments of impartial investigation will suffice to show
that it is based upon sound philosophy, in perfect accord with
science, and confirmed by the observations and experience of
those who were "on the spot,'' as the saying goes. These facts
were observed by balloonists, and published at the time:-
r.-ln an ascent made from the Crystal Palace, September
23rd, 1876 ("transition" from 21-position of 20th to that of ? or
25th), the aeronaut (Mr. J. Simmons, C.E.) said:-" In six -
minutes from the start we were enveloped in a vast body of
vapour, so intensely hot, that our position, both as regards feeling
and appearance, may be described as in a huge crock, suspended
in a vast chimney filled with smoke, and having under us heat
enough to nearly scald us, and causing our wet ballast bags to
steam away like hot puddings. The thickness of this cloud was
about 5,000 feet, and its upper surface about 7,000 feet above
the earth. The mercury now suddenly fell about 70° ( ! ), and the
balloon received on its surface about 200 lbs. of cold rain water,
the result being a very rapid descent to within a few hundred
feet of the earth."-Dairy Telegraph.
2.-In another ascent, June 9th, 1875 ("transition" between
Uranus 3rd., to Jupiter on 13th), the aeronaut said :-" We had
an exceptional and extraordinary grand sight in the south. The
clouds were piled in most fantastic shapes, when suddenly the
sheet lightning would apparently break them up, and as suddenly
they would re-form in quite different shape. During our sail,
the result of observation showed that at 1,000 feet from the
earth the wind was blowing at over 50 miles an hour, but at 6,000
feet not 5 ! "
3.-In another ascent in the United States, August 1st, 1875
(transition from Neptune of July 26th to Uranus conjunction
Sun, August 8th), Professor King said:-" A terribly ominous-
looking thunderstorm was approaching, to which he was rapidly
THE LIFE OF THE WEATHE~. 89
drawn. Going up through this, just as he expected to reach the
top, there came right down in front of him a grand discharge of
electricity. In an instant almost he felt the car lifted, the gas
suddenly expanded to overflowing, and the balloon was hurled
through the cloud with inconceivable velocity, the car swinging
backward and forward at a terrible rate. All this was accom-
plished suddenly, and would have been over quickly, but before
the car had time to stop oscillating another discharge of elec-
tricity occurred, and the same thing occurred over and over
again. Each time the balloon would be expanded to its utmost,
until it was finally thrown into the midst of the tremendous rain,
and was carried down rapidly ."
4.-Another illustration of this force-creation is furnished by
an ascent in Pennsylvania, June 17th, 1843, in a month some-
what remarkably influenced by d' d 0 on 6th, ~ on 8th, ? - W
on 16th, ~ d 0-ll. on 19th). The aeronaut says:-" I entered
the storm just as it was forming. The nucleus cloud was just
spreading out as I unexpectedly entered the vortex . I was hurled
into it so quickly that I had no opportunity of viewing the sur-
rounding outside, and must therefore confine this relation to
its internal action . On entering it, the motions of the air swung
the balloon to and fro as around in a circle, and a dismal
howling noise accompanied the unpleasant and sickening motion,
and in a few minutes thereafter was heard the falling of heavy rain
below, resembling in sound a cataract. The colour of the cloud
internally was of a milky hue, and the cold was so sharp that
my beard became bushy with hoar frost. Little pellets of
snow were pattering profusely around me in promiscuous and
confused disorder, and slight blasts of wind occurred occasion-
ally to penetrate this cloud laterally, notwithstanding there was
an upward current of wind all the while. This upmoving stream
would carry the balloon up to a point in the upper cloud where
its force was expended by the outspreading of its vapours,
whence the balloon would be thrown outwards, fall down some
distance, then be drawn into the vortex, again to be carried
upward to perform the same revolution, until I h~d gone through
the cold furnace seven or eight times . The last time of descent
in this cloud brought the balloon through its base, where, instead
of pellets of snow, there was encountered a drenching rain, with
which I came into a clear field, and the storm passed on."-
Ferrel's Treatise of the Winds, p. 425.
THE WEATHER.
These examples will give the reader an idea of the nature of

this "planetary force," and how it is created and works. Of
the actual " force " itself, the immensity of it may be conceived
from the fact that during a tornado in Ohio, U.S., on February
4th, 1842 (Earth, Sun and Neptune in conjunction on 5th),
"large buildings were lifted entire from their foundations, carried
several rods through the air, and then dashed to pieces, some of
the fragments being transported seven and eight miles." In
another, which swept Mount Carmel, Illinois, June 4th, 1877
(transition from Neptune, of May 27th, to Saturn, of June 10th),
the spire, vane, and gilded ball of the Methodist church was
carried 15 miles. In another, described by the American
Weather Bureau, which broke out March 20th, 1875 (Jupiter-
~eptune position 19-2oth), the "horizontal velocity was esti-
mated at a pressure of 114 pounds per square inch, the velocity
151 miles per hour! " A door of a church was carried seven miles.
The report ·or damages occupied 44 pages of small type. And
yet General Hazen, chief of the staff, in 1883, commenting on a
storm (planetary) prediction of Professor Wiggins, ridiculed
" planetary force " as " a thing past understanding-mere
jargon!"
Ube'Wleatber.
T HE interesting articles which are now current in this maga-
zine upon Astro•meteorology, lead me to offer a few words
upon the subject . The plan observed by Mr. Pratt is, I think,
especially deserving of attention. Removed as I am from current
observations upon the state of English weather, though I am
told you have had an exceptionally fine spring season, I can only
base my remarks upon past experience. The method of primary
directions which I have elsewhere set out is precisely that which
I follow in regard to weather predictions.
The order to be observed is as follows :-
1. The Solar aspects are noted down opposite their dates of
occurrence, and the " critical periods" marked by a cross. A
critical period is, in Meteorology, generally one of storm, because
influences of an opposite nature are found to converge at that time.
The only difference is that the nature of the aspectis not taken
into account; only the nature of the planet aspecting the Sun,
and the strength of the aspect.
THE WEATHER. 91
2. Planetary (mutual) aspects are treated in the same way.
3. The lunar influences mark the periods off into daily
phenomena, the Moon taking up the potentiality of the Solar and
Planetary aspects and bringing them into actuality.
In regard to the effects of these aspects, there already exist very
reliable tables setting forth the influence of each planetary com-
bination during the four seasons of the English year. Neptune
is found to give cyclonic tendencies, fresh winds from the S.E .
and S. quarters, fair weather. Herschell or Uranus produces
cold raw mornings and nights, mist or fog according to the
season, sudden changes from cloud to sunshine, and sudden but
brief downpours of whatever nature. Saturn lowers the tem-
perature, overcasts the sky and brings rain or snow as the case
may be. Jupiter produces large wool-clouds, white and cumulous,
increases the heat, and in summer produces thunder. Mars
increases the heat, and usually acts to relieve the latent or pent-
up energy of the attendant or preceding influence, bringing rain,
snow, hail or what not, according to the season, and electrical
phenomena when operating with Jupiter. Venus gives moisture,
mists, and light showers, and generally contrives to veil her
associations with king Sol in the most effective manner. She .
has much influence in producing the west wind in England.
Mercury is a restless fellow and sometimes turbulent. He pro-
duces wind, and can freshen up a dull day sooner than most
others. The ancients did well to give him wings upon his head
and heels, and by Merx (trade), whence his name is derived by
some, we understand little else than a good favourable wind in
the old days of sailing ships. This treaty of ours with Ouranos
concerning electricity and steam engines must give him much
cause for complaint, yet he retains his old occupation of "inter-
preter of the gods," and when in aspect to any other phnet will
render us the meaning of that body in the most faithful manner,
thundering forth the words of Jupiter, veiling the modesty of
Yenus in a soft canopy of mist, which, like the proverbial Charity
of that benign goddess, " droppeth as the gentle dew from heaven
upon the earth beneath," and whatever may be the aspect of the
gods to us, when .coming through Mercury, it is transmitted to
us in the respective language of each of them.
Jupiter and Mars are positive, electric, heat producing.
Saturn and Venus are cold and most magnetic and rain pro-
ducing, though in these respects Venus is not to be compared in
92 THE WEATHER,
strength to Saturn, for she is milder and more careful of our

welfare than the demon of the north. Uranus is eccentric in
this matter as in all else, and will give us as many samples of
English weather within twenty-four honrs as we care to have.
His effects are unexpected. Yet we may couple him with
Mercury in producing gusty weather, and in needing a kind of
polyglot astrologer to understand all that he may say one day
and another.
Now, when positive and negative forces meet, there is sure to
be some electrical discharge, and this will be noticed more par- .
ticularly when W or ? meet the Sun's aspect at the same time
as 1+or J', or at the point of transition, which I have called the
" critical " period, because then the forces at work tend to a
crisis . Thus, if Saturn met the Sun on the 3rd of the month,
and Jupiter on the nth, with no intervening aspects of sufficient
importance, the influences generated by Saturn and Jupiter
would meet the earth at equal or complemental angles on the
midway date, i.e., the 7th of the month, on which day there
would be a storm. Similarly the period intervening between the
formation of aspects between planets of the same nature, i.e.,
positive or negative, will be more or less uniformly fair or foul,
as the case may be. The above observations apply to the Solar
aspects to the planets. The interplanetary aspects are to be
judged in much the same way. Positive and negative planets,
as ? and J' , meeting in an aspect, produce storms and other
disturbances of the atmosphere, while negative planets produce
dull, rainy and cold weather, according to the season, and positive
planets fair weather, heat, &c.
Close attention has to be paid to the influences immediately
preceding any of these aspects, as if negative influences have
been generated by Saturn and Mercury just before a mutual
aspect of Jupiter and Mars, then, at a midway date, there will be
a storm or some downfall. This is, in my belief, the reason why
planetary and solar aspects frequently do not produce inter-
mediate effects on the date of their formation, for if an aspect be
due from three to five days hence, we must regard it as already in
process of formation and as generating an influence, which may
postpone the effects of aspects due to-day. This interaction of all
planetary influences in regard to the common centre, the Earth,
around which the aspects are formed, makes of astro-meteorology
a complicated but scientific system of the equation of forces.
(To be co11ti11wed.)
munbaneBetrolog,.
NEw MooN.
November 8th, 1893, o-h., 57-m.,
p.m.
T HE lunation is formed in the ninth house in close semi -

square to Venus ruling third and eighth houses. There
will be a high rate of mortality in consequence, and some notable
persons will pay the debt of nat~re ; this is further borne out by
the presence of the two malefics in the notable sign Libra in the
eighth house . The post office, railway companies, and matters
ruled by the third house should benefit from Jupiter's position
therein. Ireland and her affairs should progress. From the
positions in the ninth house we foresee sad accidents on the high
seas, much trouble for affairs affected by the ninth house. The
revenue derives considerable benefit from the probate dues.
Mercury opposes Neptune from tenth to the fourth, what will
eventuate ? Students will kindly note this opposition.
New York will be the scene of much lawlessness, some heavy
failures, and much sickness will be experienced.
St. Petersburg will have her hands full anent foreign affairs,
for the three malefics are in the seventh house, and the conjoined
luminaries are entering the house of death !
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THE LAW OF POLARITY.
DEAR SIR,-An interesting feature of correspondence between
physical states of health and the general affairs of life has come under
94 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.
my notice, and I think it may prove of service to your readers. The

solidarity of the Human Race, viewed in respect to origin and destiny,
seems to suggest that the laws of polarity are ever at work in human
affairs, drawing certain individuals together and driving others apart,
thus forming an ever-active interplay of magnetic and electrical
forces, which seek, but apparently can never fully find, a universal
equilibrium. A family consists of a certain number of individuals,
who are from the purely physical standpoint in certain magnetic
relations with one another. However distant these individuals may
be geographically, they are held together as a unit by the same law
which unites the bodies of our solar system, while admitting freedom
of motion to each along its own line; the system as a whole being
yet subject to a consentaneous movement around a common centre
(by some believed to be the fi.:,~edstar Alcyone). Thus the affections
of the planets will produce events in the life of the family as a whole,
falling upon some individual and finding reflection in the several
horoscopes of each member of the family, according to the relations
they may hold to the individual who is the centre of force. Among
the Hindus this system is carried out in extremis, the fortunes of the
• family being wholly subject to the influences at work in the horoscope
of the "head" of the family. The reason for this is that all relatives
live together and have one common custodian of their interests.
Yet, among others, this principal is carried out, for it is not a
matter depending upon the polity of a national custom, but is
grounded in the law of polarity at work throughout Nature. Accord-
ing to this law any affection of the family circle or the relations of an
individual's life will find their effect in the body of the subject as well
as in the mind and other things, agreeably to the doctrine of Corres-
pondences so highly in repute among the Egyptians and other
ancients, but now almost lost to the world. Thus, if the general environ-
ment of an individual be reprinted by a certain magnetic condition,
the loss by death or otherwise of a member of the family circle or the
addition of a member by birth, must, under the law of polarity,
directly affect the father and mother; and indirectly, by magnetic
radiation, the whole of the body to which it belongs. Thus it is that
a marriage taking place in a family will be the epoch for a protracted
period of good or bad fortune to its members, in the ratio of their
respective powers indicated by the individual horoscopes. I have
myself seen dire effects falling to a family upon the appearance of
some little innocent from the world of Souls. And naturally, as a
centre of force of a definite potentiality, the incoming to a family of
such a new factor must alter the whole nature of the composite body.
The study of the atomic ratios of chemical compounds will readily
illustrate this principle.
But I intend to adduce some facts which will demonstrate this
law upon astrological principles.
A Hindu gentleman came to me on the 26th of August, complain-
ing of a severe pain in the back of the neck which had lasted some
ten days. I asked him under what lagnam (rising sign) he was born.
He said, Makaram (Capricornus). Taurus, which rules the neck, is
therefore on the cusp of the fifth house. I then said that he must
have had some trouble with children ten days ago. He at once
informed me that just ten days back a child had been born to him. I
cured him of his complaint the same day. Another, who had
elephantiasis of the right foot, had Pisces on the cusp of _the sixth,
and at the time of the premonitory pain beginning he had quarrelled
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. 95
with his relatives on the father'.s side. A short time back I had
severe inflammation of the kidneys and constipation, and was greatly
exercised at the time in regard to certain matters of a spiritual nature
ruled by the ninth house, where these signs are found at the time of
my birth. On another occasion I severely bruised my left foot by
letting a machine fall upon it, and immediately after I was engaged in
a very painful correspondence. Pisces is on the cusp of the third,
and of course signifies the left foot and also correspondences. Many
other instances which I have collected are to the same effect, all
showing that there is an intimate relationship existing between the
physical body and states of mind; also that changes occurring in the
magnetic relations of individuals will find their corresponding effects
in the affairs of life; and finally, that from known affections of the
body one may deduce certain knowledge upon other facts in the
current life of an individual. It proves, if proof be needed, that the
mind of man has a dynamic or magnetic effect irrespective of distance,
and that they who can most help or hurt us are those who by nature
and destiny are in closest magnetic relations with ourselves. Who
can wonder after this fact is brought home to us, that the subtile
causes of half our joys and sorrows are unknown to the world at
large, and even may escape the notice of many a competent astrologer?
Do we not see that the birth of a little child will often make or mar
the whole conjugal life of two persons? This power, traced out to
the ever widening circle of its influence, stands to us for a singular
but simple illustration of the great law of magnetic polarity, which,
through the stars, operates to produce the least as the greatest of the
relative joys and sorrows of our lives. SEPHARIAL.
P.S.-While writing I should be glad to know of any researches
made into the "Planetary Periods." I am convinced by my own
experience that the period of the Moon is 25 years, and I shall be
glad to have confirmation of this, or facts to the contrary.
DEAR SIR,-ln the case of "Infant Mortality" given on page 6,

et seq. of No. 1, Vol. IV., there are some points which seem to have
been overlooked.
I do not consider any astrologer would have predicted that the
child, whose horoscope of birth is given on page g, would live to
maturity; but on the contrary the evidence for early death is so con-
spicuous that I think no other conclusion could have been come to.
The planets Mars and Uranus are not in the figure of birth, their
respective places being 1lJZo0 17' and 1IJl24° 1'.
The Sun is separating from a conjunction of Saturn in the third
. sign and eleventh house. This gives a weak left lung, and corrupts
the blood (Aquarius the eleventh sign being significant of this latter
effect). The Sun goes to L 2l lord of the eighth and fifth (the fifth
ruling the heart) and in the sign of the heart. Mars afflicts the ) in
the fourth by a parallel from n.Jtin the first house. Uranus is shortly
met by the exact L of ) in the eighth sign and fourth house! Saturn
is lord of the sixth, and is the lord of ascendant. The Moon last
separated from the lord of the eighth. The Moon has thus three
afflictions, and the Sun two ; all powerful, being close.
I think one need look no further for means to judge of the length of
life, since neither the Sun nor Moon have a saving aspect of any
importance, the closest being the sextile of Mars to the Moon.
Yours sincerely; SEPHARIAL.
DEAR SIR,-With regard to the figure of Lincoln, would it not be

of interest to note the position of f also ? In the first map, he is in
fourth, the grave, in 'Y', ruling head, o J' in seventh, disposed of by
J' (within 1°). In the second map, death occurs when Mars has
gained this 1°. Is there any significance in this? I think to get a
fair idea of Neptune's influence his aspects and position should be
noted, especially in prominent figures. Yours truly, f t::,. 0.
DEAR S1R,-" Candid asks my opinion on Casael's horary figure,

page 245. To be candid, I may say that these figures have puzzled
me for a long time. I kept quiet simply for the reason that I had
occupied so much of your valuable space on other matters.
I will take the replies of Casael in rotation as he gives them.
1.-This reply is very shaky, considering the closer connection of
the ) with '? and W.
2.-Doubtful, the 0 being more afflicted than otherwise.
3.-This is certainly wrong, the eleventh house being the brother's
ninth. From the position of the 0 in his seventh, I should have
judged his thoughts were on subjects connected with the sixth and
seventh (the ) being in his sixth). Why America? This, surely,
must be tancy. .
4.-This seems a gratuitous answer, because no question was
asked about employment. !;! so placed is not feminine.
5.-We are not told if he had a tempestuous voyage, but J' in his
ninth and ruler of it, is certainly not good.
6.-Allright. Sensible.
7.-Shaky.
I always take the sixth house for the Astrologer, he, for the time,
being employedby the querent.
I am sorry " Casael " accuses " Candid " of such a stupid failing
as jealousy. What is there to be jealous of? RAPHAEL.
ERRORS AGAIN!
DEAR SIR,-Permit me to point out to you the stupid and
childish errors which appear on page 148 of your contemporary.
The quintile aspect is altered, it now contains 144° or double allow-
ance ; and, when the ascendant is ll'I. and ~ is in
be in*! .
*, they are said to
We are told that, "Mars being the ruling planet gave him (the
native) resolution, courage and dexterity in the use of arms."
Dexterity fiddlesticks ! It is also stated that "the 8 of the ) with
both ? and !;! from cadent houses (note this) and all the heavenly
bodies except the ) being below the horizon (!) accounted for the
several dangerous illnesses," &c. What nonsense. ? occupies the
cusp of the sixth and would signify this. Fancy planets below the
horizon producing sickness! What next?
Now for something good. When the ascendant by direction in
mundo came to the o, and the MC. to the 8 of !;! , the native had
castoroil administered to him (pity it wasn't this cleverwriter!) and
the doctor, we are told, exhibited tartar emetic and other remedies!
I do wish this writer would exhibit astrologia sana. RAPHAEL.
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I THOUGHT "Nemo" a gentleman, but in this case my
judgment is decidedly faulty. I refer to his reply to the
remarks I made at the foot of page 27 of the September
number of this magazine. Gilbert writes in "Pinafore,"
"Skim milk masquerades as cream," but this is a digression.
Revenonsanos moutons. In the" Astrologers' Pocket Companion"
published Jn 1825, the horoscope of the poet Byron may be found.
It was, I believe, drawn by the late John Varley, whom it is said
obtained the data, &c., from reliable authority. Our able
contributor " Leo" erected the death figure of the poet, which
will be found on page 201, Vol.· III . Pearce it seems, at the
request of an ardent student, has erected the horoscope for
another time than that which appears in the figure by Varley, in
consequence of an allusion made by our contributor " Leo " to
the death figure (not the horoscope be it noted) as merely "sig-
nificant of Byron in some respects." Had the figure Pearce
erected been a correctone, and the judgment correctalso, we should
have approved of it, but when we find Neptune inserted in
22° 41' !loof Capricornus when this planet was 90 degrees distant
from this point, it is time to draw attention to the blunder.
Neptune's approximate place is 22.45 ~ of Libra. And now for
the judgment. Pearce states the application of ~ to W (i.e. the
d) may have increased his poetic .genius. Had he said ~ was
applying to the squareof W he would have been right, but I doubt
if much genius would come from a malefic aspect. For Byron's
death, amid other reasons, he states this is also indicated by the>
8 W in the house of death ! The > is not in 8 W, nor is W in the
house of death ! for W is in the fifth, the house of pleasure, and
th~ ) is consequently in square, and it has no bearing on death
at all . This is the new way of " improving " a horoscope. He
gives Byron the sign ~ as the ascendant, and makes the following
original remark, " Cancer rising is usually identified with a small
98 MR. STEAD'S HOROSCOPE.
head and face, and Byron's head was small." The Cancer people
I have come across are decidedly the reverse, Madam Blavatsky
being a notable example.
Pearce assigns the genius Byron had to the po5ition at his
birth of ~ , who was in a tropical si~n ( ~ was on cusp of the
eighth in VJ 8 >). This is original and no mistake. What about
the other people who are born with ~ in VJ who are not so gifted ?
(How many thousands are there?) Had Pearce said that the
aspect between the > and ~ gave him a hatred of all forms of
control, he would have been right, and for his fame he gives it
not only to the 0 in his detriment on cusp of ninth, but to the
strength of the > position () d W), and her configuration to the
planets on the meridian ( '? d ~ in ::: on M.C.). The configura-
tion is the 150° distant. If this is not a stretch of the imagination,
what is?
By his elastic semi-arcs he has made the directions fit events,
but I doubt the correctness of the horoscope. It is easy to pre-
dict e,·ents after they have happened an,t make arcs fit, but he
does not seem to make the directions in the Roy,11 Horoscopes
he has tinkered with come right. He had better have let well
alone; as it is, he has afforded me an opportunity of shewing
students how not to "improve " a horoscope. What about Sir
Augustus Harris ?
APHOREL .
mr. Steab's boroecope.
I T is decisively stated by a writer in the pages of our contem-

porary, that the horoscope of Mr. Stead which appeared in
our pages some two years ago is wrong.
The horoscope was erected and re ,:tified by ' · Neptune," the
astrologer, by the method taught in Pearce's unreliable Text
Book, so that if it is wrong it is not to be wondered at. We
may say that "Neptune" is a personal friend of Mr. Stead's,
and the friendship is a long-standing one ; theref ,re, he is far
more likely to be right than the bus) body who is Wilde by name
and wild by nature. Our contemporary's effusion is aptly
characterised as a "literary dust heap," and the term "rubbish
may be shot here," is thoroughly carried out.
'Remarftable
prebtcttoneb\?BnctentBetrologere.
M ICHEL NOSTRADAMUS, of whom many of our readers

may not have heard, was born about mid-day, December
14th, 1503, in St. Remy. The majority of his prophecies were
in reference to the land of his birth, but several dealt with
England and the English, and as it will doubtless be of interest
to our readers, we shall give some of his prophecies and their
fulfilment. As will be readily understood, the original prophecies
were not couched in the plain language we are accustomed to
use in the present day, on the contrary, the meaning was often
veiled as we shall shew. We may add he wrote hundreds of
these prophecie.;, but in some cases the meaning is not very de-
finite, so far as the testimonies of past commentators have been
concerned.
The following is a notable one :-
DEATH OF HENRY II. {JULY 10, 1559.)
Le lyon jeune levieux surmontera

En champ bellique par singulier duelle
Dans cage d'or les yeux lui crevera
Deux classes une, puis mourir, mort cruelle.
(Translated.)
The old lion shall be overcome by the young one
In a single duel upon the battle field,
In a golden cage (gilded visor?) his eyes will pierce,
This is the first of two blows-and then a cruel death.
A tournament was proclaimed by Henry II. for July 1st, 1559,
in honor of his daughter's marriage with Philip II. of Spain, and
he challenged all comers. Towards the close, one of his noble -
men advised him to desist, as his side had proved the victors,
but the king would not, as he wanted another encounter, and he
commanded a captain of his Scotch Guards (le Comte de Mont-
gomeri), to oppose him. The Count begged to be excused, but
the king sternly insisted. The Scotchman obeyed the command,
spurred his horse, and struck the king upon the throat below the
visor. The lance shivered, and as the butt raised the visor, a
splinter wounded the king above the right eye, cutting several of
the veins. The king fainted, but he lived on for ten days in ter-
rible agony as foretold, " Deux classes une, puis mourir, mart
cruelle."
100 REMARKABLE PREDICTIONS.
This was the first of two blows-the king died, as predicted,

a violent death; his son, Henri III., was the second; he fell by
the hand of Jacques Clement. It is likewise stated the king
wore a gilt helmet, which exactly applies to the cage d'or.
It may be likewise remarked that another astrologer, named
Luc Gauric, had been visited by the king in company with two
others to whom he feigned to give precedence, but as the astro-
loger probably knew the king, he insisted on addressing him first,
and told him he would die in a duel, and likewise prophecied a
violent death to his companions.
There is another version of this. Lord Bacon states that the
queen mother, Catherine de Medici, was given to curious arts,
and caused the king's nativity to be cast under a false name.
The astrologer predicted death in a duel. The queen derided it,
supposing her husband's position to be above such challenges,
"but he was slain upon a course at tilt, the splinters of Mont-
gomery's lance going in at his beaver ." Here is a testimony in
favor of the astrologers, for time has proved they were right, in
spite of the odds against them .
This is also definite :-
BIRON ' S PUNISHMENT (DEC. 2, 1602) .
Quand le Robin la traisteruse enterprise

Mettra seigneurs et en peine un grand prince,
Seen par La Fin chef on Jui tranchera.
(Translation.)
When Biron's traitorous enterprise
Discomforts the king and his nobles,
La Fin betrays, and the king beheads.
It is well to call attention to the word Robin, anagramised
Biron, and La Fin, the secretary, who was Biron's accomplice.
This Biron was decapitated the year of 1602 .
A commentator relates two of Biron's interviews with astro-
logers that will prove interesting to the student .
Ere he attained his majority, he had a duel and killed his
adversary. He had to keep out of the way until his father could
obtain his pardon. He took the disguise of a messenger, and
thus attired consulted an astrologer called La Brosse, who lived
in a garret near the Luxembourg; he told the astrologer he de-
sired his master 's horoscope . La Brosse told him that one day
he would be a very great man, in fact, might almost be king but
for a Caput Algol that stood in the way. What this meant the
REMARKABLE PREDICTIONS, 101
astrologer would not explain. Biron, who continued to press

him hard got him at last to say he would be beheaded on the
scaffold. He thereupon burst out with the lack of judgment he
had shewn throughout life, beat the astrologer mercilessly and
left him half dead, and he went out, locking the door after him,
kicking down the little ladder that formed the ascent to the
garret, but still he implicitly believed what he had been told.
On another occasion he consulted Cesar, who was considered
the most able French astrologer of his day. This astrologer
predicted good fortune in almost everything, but except from a
blow from a Burgundian from behind he might even be king,
but he could not elicit any further information.
When confined in the Bastile, a friend called, and Biron asked
him to find out from what part of the country the executioner of
Paris came. His friend sought the information, and came back
and told Biron he was a Burgundian ; Biron changed colour and
said, "I am as good as dead; there will not be a reprieve." In
due time he was beheaded, as Nostradamus, La Brosse and
Cesar predicted. Those interested in these prophecies should
get the "Oracles of Nostradamus," by C. A. Ward, they are
decidedly instructive and are well translated.
The coal strike was presignified by the planetary positions at the

Sun's entry into Cancer. Saturn was then in the fourth house
(governing mines) and the Sun was approaching the square aspect.
At the next lunation, Saturn was again in the fourth. At the July
New Moon, Saturn, ruling the fourth, was in the twelfth. In August,
the Moon, ruling the fourth, was in the sixth and applying to Mars.
On the 10th September, Saturn was rising as lord of the fourth.
Finally, at the autumnal equinox, the Moon, ruling the fourth, was
rather more favourably placed, being in elevation; and accordingly
several of the mines have recommenced working. On 27th October,
with the Moon in conjunction with Jupiter, the news was published
that the owners were willing to meet the men and discuss the points
at issue. The October eclipse falling in conjunction with Saturn, did
not tend to mend matters.
The amount of sickness during the month (October) has been

alarming, the fever hospitals have been overcrowded, and temporary
accommodation has been a dire necessity. The "satellitum" in the
sixth house in the figure for the Sun's entry into Libra and the
affliction of the sixth house in the lunatory figure which will be found
on pages 66 and 67, was the astrological cause for this, and our pre-
dictions were deducted from these positions and aspects.
ttbe Spirit of Saturn.
W HEN the student first begins th~ study of astrology, he

reads in the books that each planet has certain definite
significations. The Sun is pride, dignity, vitality, etc.; Mercury
is the planet of the intellect; Venus, of love; Mars, of strength,
etc. But it must often strike him that one simple key to the
nature of each planet is wanted; some theory that will at once
explain and account for the apparently arbitrary series of
functions, powers, and meanings attributed to each planet. For
instance, why should Venus,
Hesperus, the poet's planet, bringer home of all good things,
become, when afflicted by a malefic, the apparent cause of
dissipation and sensuality. Many such questions as this crop
up, and the student is sometimes at a loss to know in what
particular light he ought to regard a planet, especially when the
aspects are cross. Are Jupiter and the Sun justice and nobility,
or vanity and ambition ? Is Saturn prudence, or cowardice?
Why should the Moon, a dead and decaying planet, govern
child-birth ?
I have a suggestion to make concerning one of the planets,
Saturn, which I think will be found to explain the secret of his
varied operations. After a careful consideration of the power
attributed to Saturn, both in astrology and mythology, it seem~
to me pretty evident that Saturn represents nothing more or less
than the principle of limitation in man and the universe. In the
first place, he is a cold planet, and cold is the typical binding
and constricting force ; a bar of metal when heated, expands,
and when cooled, contracts. The limiting tendency of the
planet produces an analagous coldness when operating on the
mental plane; shuts a man up within himself; causes intense
selfishness, unsociability, love of retirement and solitude,
tendency to gloom, despondency and melancholia. If not
counteracted by Venus or Jupiter, Saturn will kill out all
buo) ancy of spirit and hopefulness, and therefore, in society,
Saturn is unsociable, and in religion he is often sincere but too
serious, tending to a gloomy, cruel faith, with a deal of bigotry
and morbidness in it . If not this, he is, at any rate, solemn and
staid.
In the four elements, fire, air, water and earth, he governs
earth, because it is the most limited and confined. For a similar
reason, in the living body, he go,·erns the bony skeleton. His
THE SPIRIT OF SATURN. 103
metal, lead, is occasionally used in medicine against diarrhrea,

and acts as an astringent; it is frequently used externally as a
lotion because of its cooling properties. Saturn is said to cause
accidents from falling, evidently owing to his connection with
the Earth. The occupations he signifies are all connected with
the Earth, land-owners, those who work on land, miners, etc.
Darkness and secrecy are his because of his limitation. He
seems to be in many respects the polar opposite of Mars, and to
act in the reverse manner. Mars expands, Saturn contracts and
limits. The one is heat, the other cold.
This power of limitation may be exerted both for good and
evil, though it is perhaps easier to trace out the evil effects than
those that are good. Homogeneous diffused substance, when
subjected to the power of limitation, becomes divided up into
separate centres, atoms, monads, bodies, or vehicles, in which
consciousness can function ; while consciousness itself, from
being one universal cosmic self, Mahat, becomes limited or
individualised into separate human egos, which function through
the aforesaid vehicles, all alike being brought into being through
the power of limitation. This is the whole purpose of evolution,
to convert undifferentiated consciousness first into selves and
ultimately into one great self again, enriched by the experience
acquired in the descent into matter. The "unconscious evolved
the universe in order to attain to self-consciousness," says one
European philosopher. Because Saturn thus limits conscious-
ness, his children shew the idea of self, for good or for evil,
greatly exalted. When it is for good, that is to say when it is
harmoniously balanced by the love principle, it produces a
strong, self-centred person, self-reliant, prudent, patient, able to
encounter many enemies an~ overcome many difficulties. That
Saturn gives the power of deep thinking and concentration of
thought is well known. But when it is exerted for evil, that is,
when it is not balanced by the expansive influence of the love
principle, it shuts a man off from his fellows and produces the
well-known effects of selfishness, coldness of heart, melancholy,
and cowardice, with many others familiar to all astrologers.
Why is Saturn exalted in Libra, the house of Venus? Because
the love principle of Venus broadens out and softens the cold-
ness and sense of self which is so strong in Saturn. It is well
known to occultists that Saturn is the planet of the Jews, and his
influence may be readily recognised in their character and history.
TliE SPlRIT OF SATURN.
Why is Saturn strong for good in Capricorn and Aquarius,

and for evil in Leo and Cancer? In Aquarius, because the sign
seems to harmonise with Saturn's tendency to abstract thought ;
the desire to limit in this case seems to me to result in large
generalisations rather than small details ; a somewhat para-
doxical effect, as if limitation were to result in expansiveness.
Saturn's negative influence in a negative sign abstracts the
thought from externals and details. If this is so, it may shew
why Mercury finds this sign so congenial that "Sepharial"
proposes to exalt him there. In the positive sign Leo, the
negative Saturn is out of his element; the lower self of Saturn
and the higher self of the Sun are irreconcilable, the one must
give way to the other. in another sense, the limiting and
constricting Saturn has no part or lot in the large, unifying,
spiritual heart of all things. Saturn in Cancer is destructive and
disintegrating; in Capricorn (Makara), he is constructive and
synthesising. Perhaps this may give us a clue to " Sepharial's"
reason for exalting Jupiter in Capricorn. Astronomers tell us
that the planet Jupiter is a huge globe, in all probability not yet
thoroughly solidified, and some scientists have conjectured that
it may be in the "critical state," between solid and .liquid.
Therefore, when Jupiter is in Capricorn, this nebulous condition
is transformed (in the person born, of course, not in the planet),
into the firm, completed body, which is necessary for the due
manifestation of the ego. How far this is traceable on the
physical plane and in the physical body I am uncertain at
present; it may be that the average man has not yet developed
enough of the spiritual love principle to properly counteract the
Saturnian coldness of Capricorn.
Every organised body that forms a separate unit is held
together in virtue of a certain binding force, which, the reader
will perceive, is Saturnian in its nature, because it limits and
defines the body. But every such body is built up of a multitude
of parts, small cells, "lives." The power which attracts these
separate parts or constituents together is undoubtedly the force
of "love," love being that which attracts two opposites together
to form one whole. Here we have the benefic or spiritualised
Saturn identifying itself in a mysterious manner with the
attracting and unifying power of love. But let this unifying
love-power be withdrawn, and what happens? Saturn instantly
shews himself as a malefic agent ; he drives asunder the
THE SPIRIT OF SATURN, 105
component parts, the cells, and instead of one harmonious life,
we have a multitude of small, separated lives at war with each
other; for one self we have a multitude of selves, far more
limited than when they were bound together in one. Saturn is
thus the planet of disease and death, and governs the process
and products of decomposition on every plane. On the physical
plane, these products are the minute "lives" into which the body
is ultimately resolved, and these are spoken of in popular
phraseology as worms, insects, flies, and all kinds of loathsome
creeping things. This is one reason why the devil, as Baal-
zebub, is represented as the god of these creatures.
One result of Saturn's decomposing or sundering power is
shewn where he dislocates the astral body from the physical, as
in mediumship. It is well known that spiritualistic mediumship
in its more undesirable forms is due to the prominence of Saturn
and the Moon; but higher planets than these must co-operate
for lofty spiritual illumination.
In Grreco-Latin mythology, Saturn is spoken of as mutilating
his father to prevent him generating more offspring. This
happens in the spiritual cosmos when the father, the impersonal
Brahma, is limited into and by the son, the personal Brahma;
and again when Mahat, the cosmic mind, is individualised and
limited into human egos. The allegory is obviously capable
of more than one interpretation. In astrology, Saturn is well
known as a barren planet. He devours his own children, which
means that he ultimately disintegrates and destroys those very
units which his individualising and constructing power had built
up, just as man's re-incarnating ego creates and destroys a
number of successive personalities, feeding upon the spiritualised
experience of each. He is dethroned by his son and takes up
his abode in Latium, a word derived from a root meaning to
conceal, which is characteristically Saturnian. He teaches the
people agriculture, from his connection with the earthy element.
From these considerations I suggest that Saturn is simply
the tendency to limitation, and that all his po\\1ers and character-
istics arise naturally out of this tendency.
Dr. Anna Kingsford makes this quite clear in her magnificent
hymn, "The Secret of Satan," in the Perfect Way:
......
Evil is the result of limitation , and Satan is the Lord of Limit .
.
He encompasseth with bonds and limits all things which are made:
He putteth chains round about the worlds and determineth their orbits.
LEO.
F 2
mobernSetrologere.
No. V.-MR. ROBERT BOREHAM.
T HE subject of our photo-horoscope was born on August

18th, 1846, at 4-h. 53-m. a.m. Our readers may be interested
in knowing that he is a descendant of(' Raphael" I. (R. C. Smith,
author of the Manual). The fixed sign Leo rises with the Sun
exactly on the cusp, heavily afflicted; the Moon is not much
better off, and had the native been born when a weaker sign
arose, the chances would have been against his reaching
maturity. The Sun, Moon, and Mercury are essentially
dignified, each being in own sign, and, in addition to this, six
planets are accidentally dignified by being angular. All the
benefics rising are favourable to advancement, and this is borne
out by facts that the native · has ·been ·the architect : of his own
·fortunes, and has done ·so unaided. by friends, and made his way
by his own efforts. The aspects between Mercury and the Moon
· -de~ot_e a keen, practical, observant man, the proximity of
MODERN ASTROLOGERS.--MR, ROBERT BOREHAM. 107
Mars to Mercury giving energy. Mercury ruling second and

stror:ig in the sign denoting his energies will be directed to the
acquisition of wealth, and success will attend it ; but as Uranus
is in parallel to the ruler of the second, he will have sudden gains
and sudden losses agreeably to the nature of the operating
directions. He will not· do much good in speculating, for the
ruler of the fifth ( 2f.) is weak, and afflicting the ruler of the
second.
He is, by profession, an engineer, and a skilful one, and those
astrologers who always take lord of tenth to signify the occupa-
tion, would be entirely out in this case. I consider the strongest
planets in the figure give the best results, and it is borne out
here, for the Sun, a fiery planet, strong in the ascendant,
Mercury (representing Mars, as he is so close to him) in an
agreeable sign, and ruling the financial house; and, also, Mars
rules the ninth, the house of science ; yet, in addition to this,
Uranus is in parallel to Mercury, and will add his nature and
influence in this direction, so that an "expert," in dealing with
an occupation in which "science" and "fire" is co-mingled, he
is one of the few "square men in the square hole." He has
studied astrology for many years, which is his pet hobby. Note
the aspects between Mercury and the Moon. Uranus also
aspects the Moon, but by a square aspect. He has made some
notable private· predictions, but has specially studied the natures
of the planets in connection with the various metals and
machinery he has been working in, and has predicted many
accidents in various machines, which have invariably come true.
He definitely states that all engine machinery is primarily under
the influence of Uranus, and secondly under Mars. In his early
days he did no good in England, but went to America, in which
*
he did wisely, W 2f., but it was by no means a bed of roses; for
the voyage, note Uranus squares Moon from the house of long
voyages. Throughout his life he has met with determined
opposition, but it does not affect him much, for the strong
position of the lord of the ascendant ·in his own sign, will always
enable him to overcome their machinations. There is much
sympathy between this horoscope and Alan Leo's, and the
student is advised to compare them, for there are many points
of agreement between the two.
APHOREL .
"Raphul's" Horosrop, t11illapp,a,-iis our is,xt.
munbaneBstrolog,.
NEw MooN.
December 8th, 1893, 7-h., 40-m.,
a.m., London.
AT the time of New Moon on the 8th instant, the conjoined

I"\. luminaries are rising in 16° 301 of the celestial sign
Sagittarius. The lights are separating from the opposition of
Neptune, and applying to the sextile of Saturn in the mid-heaven.
The conjunction of Uran us and Mars in the eleventh house,
foreshadows much turbulence and fiery speeches in the Houses
of Parliament, and also that deaths among the members will
occur during the rule of this lunation. The month will be
characterised by much secret crime, that will not be brought to
light for some three months.
Finance should be fairly good, and, on the whole, the health
of the community will improve. There will be imbroglios with
our foreign relations ; but the mutual reception by exaltation
between Uran us and Neptune will prevent matters coming to a
head. It is doubtful whether trade will improve as the lights
are in the ascendant. Mercury and Jupiter being in opposition
in "earthquake" signs, there is danger to be apprehended from
explosions and seismic disturbances.
St. Petersburg will be the scene of much disturbance secretly
fostered, the anarchists will be busy, and the authorities will be
in danger. •
New York will feel the effects of Mars' conjunction with
Uran us near the cusp of the second house ; alarming failures
and sudden disasters will affect the financial world.
France will be greatly excited during the rule of the neomenia,
and turbulence may be expected to arise in the debates in the
legislative assembly.·
Sstrologers3 ba\'emet.
N 0. 3, was a tall, good-looking man, who had remarkably fine
intuition and he was undoubtedly a good astrologer. The
greater portion of his life was spent in America, and he had plenty
of the American characteristics. He was very sharp, very dogmatic,
his library consisted of "Raphael's Manual" (a book every astro-
loger should possess)," Raphael's Guides," and an assortment of
"Zadkiel's" and "Raphael's" Almanacs and Ephemerides. He
had a very poor opinion of Pearce (the present "Zadkiel "), and
was not particularly choice in the epithets he applied to him
and his predictions, but his opinion of" Raphael" was the general
one.
He was a good delineator of a figure, and his calculations were
always correct, but if slow he was sure. He had the best horary
figure (I have it by me) for the double murder (in the series of
the Whitechapel murders) that I have seen. It will be in the
recollection of many, that one of these poor unfortunates was
mutilated, but the other was not, and the figure clearly shews it,
his reading of the figure was unique and quite borne out. He
was an inventive genius, and patented several of his ideas,
but like Pearce, who does not act up to what he preaches and
teaches, he did not avail himself of the knowledge the science
should impart, for he took a partner whose nativity was anti-
pathetical to his own, and the usual result followed.
A correspondent some time ago, wanted to know if professing
astrologers were so clever, why they did not foresee the prosecutions
that came to them and various troubles t~at happened. Probably
for the same reason that No. 3 and his partner did not get on,
viz., they did not act up to what they knew from the science,
hence disaster. Our friend had Uranus in the seventh afflicted,
and in the small Astrological Society of which we were members,
this position in his horoscope and many similar ones came before
us for dissection, and the effect produced by the planet when so
posited and afflicted was demonstrated without a doubt. He was
very energetic whilst the investigations lasted, and went at the
"long orbs" and " transits " like a veritable Boanerges, but he
grew tired and gradually drifted apart, and when I last heard
of him, he was in the " land of the free.'' Whether he still pursues
Astrology I know not, I hope he does, for with the natural ability
he had for it he would have rendered the science good service.
Bnomaltes.
I T is not surprising that so many astrological students give up
their studies in despair when they find in the books that
are supposed to enlighten them, so many essentials either omitted
or else so mystified that they are unable to find out what the
authors mean. One of their first stumbling blocks is in the
measurement of the aspects, which, if not correctly understood
will cause endless worry, and as a natural sequence, wrong judg-
ment when delineating a figure; therefore, when they go for
information to the "Grammar of Astrology," by "Zadkiel I."
(Morrison), or the" Text Book" by Pearce, and find (for example)
that the trine aspect is stated to consist of 120 degrees, and yet,
although in the various maps, &c., no example of a perfect trine
(120 degrees) is given, and no explanation of this discrepancy
is mentioned, both these authors are deserving of the gravest
censure for omitting these necessary particulars. Half-a -guinea
is quite enough to pay for a Guide Book to any science, but
unless a "Text Book" or a "Grammar" contains necessary
details, of what real use are they ?
Morrison's "Grammar of Astrology" is sadly inadequate in
many ways. Here is an extract:
"The aspects in the zodiac consist of certain distances, at which,
when two bodies are found, they produce a peculiar effect. . • .· If it
can be proved (which it certainly can), that when the Moon,for example,
arrives at a trine aspect of Jupiter, or 120 degrees from that planet in
any nativity, certain remarkable events appear, which do not appear
when she arrives at the distance of 122 or 123 or any other number of
degrees, this fact demonstrates that there is something peculiar in the
angle formed by 120 degrees, which constitute a trine aspect."
This is a plain statement, and proves two things. First, that
Morrison ignored "orbs" entirely, for he distinctly states that
"events appear when the planets are 120 degrees apart, bu·t not
at 122 or 123," but like Pearce, he does not practice what he
teaches, for in Byron's daughter's horoscope the "example ,
nativity" in the" Grammar," there is no instance of an 120° aspect.
Notice the 0 is in 17° ~ 40;, the > is 5° 'Y' 39' and J- is 20° 'Y' 26',
yet he says " J- is in trine to the 0, the distance between these
planets is 122° 46' ,'' and he also says " the 0 is in trine to them
(asc. 8° 'Y' 9' and )), the distance between the 0 and ) is 127° 59',
and between the 0 and asc. 130° 29'." As the reader will at once
see there is no example of an 120° aspect and no explanation
ANOMALIES. III
given of the discrepancy. He further states "Mars is in the

ascendant and close to the Moon," they are ONLY 14° 47 1 apart,
presumably a conjunction, but how wide !
The second thing we learn from Morrison's extract is, that
secondary directions (those we advocate) are of great importance
and efficacy (although the majority of his disciples totally ignore
the planets' progressit•edirections), for he distinctly states "when
the Moon arrives at a trine aspect of Jupiter, or 120 degrees from
that planet in any nativity, certain remarkable events appear."
Be it observed he does not say the place of the Moon arrives, but
the Moon arrives, and yet his pupil and successor (Pearce) vaguely
talks about ittert secondary directions, when his tutor (Morrison),
a far more able astrologer than he can hope to be, decidedly speaks
of the remarkable events that appear when a secondary (pro-
gressive) direction of 0 to 6 2f._is formed. I am aware that
elsewhere in the " Grammar " he speaks disparagingly in one
place of these "secondary directions only lasting a week or two,
but when they agree in nature with the Primary, the event is
shewn when the influence is mo5t powerful, viz., when the
secondary direction is complete."
I have little confidence in a man who " blows hot and cold "
in this manner, and when one finds such contradictory statements
in a " Grammar of Astrology" which is supposed to be a book
to teach or enable one to become a proficient astrologer, we can
only lament that such conflicting statements have been so long •
allowed to pass unchallenged and unnoticed.
I shall revert to this subject next month.
APHOREL.
Mr. T. B. Leigh, B.Sc., delivered a lecture at Heaton Moor, near

Manchester, on Science in Shakespere, on 2nd October, in the course
of which he made frequent references to Shakespere's acquaintance
with astrology. He said "His knowledge of astrological lore cannot
be doubted, and though in severely rational moments he could write
'the fault is not in our stars but in ourselves that we are underlings,'
he was never free from a lurking suspicion that the circling orbs with
their mysteries beyond his ken were of awful importance in determining
human fate." ·
* * * * "'
The conj~nction of Mars and Saturn fell in the sign Libra, which
is the seventh house from Aries, the ruling sign of England. Coinciding
with this .position we have the Matabele slaughter in South Africa on
our hands .
3nfanttlemortaltt1?.
Rob was born at 6.40 p.m., September 7th, 1891, Sou!hport,
and lived just seven weeks.
M.C. Ilth. 12th. interc. asc. interc. 2nd. 3rd.
},J8.40 },J27 .:24 * 'Y'24 8 n2 n 22
0 > ~ ? 3 '? 21- W
14l!Jt.49 3l11.7 2S!ll22~ Ill1Ji52 lnJi58 19lll43 12*48:Ef. 28~58
This child died suddenly when the ascendant processed to
opposition of Uranus, the ascendant having just left the semi-
square of Jupiter, lord of the eighth. The processed 0 would
be also afflicted by conjunction with Saturn. _At birth the
affliction is heavy. The child had great vitality, which ) 3 *
probably gave. The doctor gave cause of death as bronchitis.
T. C., born n.50 p.m., March 29th, 1871, lat. 53° N., died
September 18th, 1872.
M.C. 11th. 12th. asc. 2nd. 3rd.
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0 > ~ ? 3 21- '? W

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The affliction is very heavy, and death was almost certain;
he was a fine boy. \Vas taken ill with whooping cough, then
bronchitis set in, and diarrhrea caused death.
Emma J. R., born 4 p.m., March 4th, 1886, lat. 52°.

M.C. 11th. interc. 12th. asc. 2nd. 3rd.
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This child died at 5.35 p.m., August 18th, 1886, of diarrhrea.
The affliction at birth and death is severe.
Female, born 6 a.m., April 25th, 1887; died 7.30 p.m., Sept.
17th, 1892.
M.C. Ilth. interc. 12th. int ere. asc. 2nd. 3rd.
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INFANTILE MORTALITY. II3
This child died in the hospital ; she had alwa_ys suffered in
her throat severely, and was attended by four doctors just
previous to death, one of them finally finishing her. Note 2/. in
sixth, lord of eighth o M.C., and M.C. o 8 in twelfth; again,
~ , lord of asc., 8 W, and ? L asc. at birth. Here > seems to
force evil into action by her progressive square aspects in fourth.
Male child, born 2.45 a.m., September 27th, 1893, Nottingham,

died I p.m., October 12th, 1893.
M.C. I Ith. interc. 12th. asc. 2nd. 3rd.

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The mother had fever when she gave birth to this child, and
through insufficient nourishment the child died. The affliction
at birth is not severe, and if the child could have survived
processed asc. square Jupiter, the chances would appear to be
greatly in his favour.
The New Moon of October was an eclipse, invisible in England.

An eclipse is invariably malefic over the whole world, but produces its
worst effects according to the house in which it falls in that part of
the world where it is visible. In England, this eclipse fell in the fifth
house, which is the eighth from the tenth, and therefore signifies the
death of great people. On 17th October, at 10 a.m., died Marshal
MacMahon, the celebrated French soldier, at his chateau of La
Foret, near Monteresson. He was born 13th July, 1808. On the
next day Gounod, the famous musician, died at Paris, at 6.25 a.m.
He was born 17th June, 1818. On 21st October, Lord Vivian, British
Ambassador to Rome, died. On the next day died Dr. Knox, Arch-
bishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland, and the Maharajah
Dhuleep Singh.
At the autumnal equinox, the. sixth house was heavily tenanted

and the sickness we predicted seems to have resulted in the want and
starvation among the miners then on strike. Several thousand
pounds have been collected by public subscription and distributed
among the worst cases.
The Harness Electric Co. may be instanced in connection with the

forecasts on page 66, for many minor companies and financial schemes
have not been perfected, notwithstanding the glowing reports that
have been issued by company promoters.
ttbe Stubente'<torner.
BY "RAPHAEL."
0 NE of your correspondents asks my opiniun as to the cause

of death of a lady, born August 19th, 1856, at IO . IO p.m.,
in lat. 50Q 401 N. · The 29° of Taurus was rising, and Whad just
risen in o to the 0 and L to 7 . t occupied the sixth house in
m. She died November 27th, 1890. At the age of 27 she
married a man 28 years her senior, and the marriage proved a
very happy union, despite the affliction of the 0 by 7 and W.
I wish your correspondent had sent the husband's date of
birth, because it would doubtless have formed the key as to why
this marriage proved happy, and why the wife died before the
husband. That he was very fond of her there is no doubt,
because an aspect of Wto the 0 produces a kind of fascination
which man is powerless to resist. What she thought of her
husband and how happy she was are points upon which we need
not enter.
Your correspondent does not say how long she had been
ailing, although he incidentally mentions that she was always
delicate. Her birth figure shews a weak constitution and a
short life. At her marriage the >was near 2(. and in P. to this
planet, and the 0 was within two degrees of a .6. of Wand apply-
ing to a P. of 2f. at birth.
In the year 1890, the ) met the planet 7, and subsequently
the o of ~ , the latter planet had also progressed to the 8 of the
> from· the sixth house, and which had something to do with the
troubles from which she suffered. I can fi_nd no suitable
direction corresponding to the exact time of death, although
there had been many evil directions for two years previous, and
this confirms me in the opinion I have expressed in your pages
as to the unsatisfactory state of directional astrology.
[At the time of death the processed 0 -~ was o 2(. d '7 and d
prog . asc., and the process from the prog. asc. gives t 8 exact.-Eo.]
On page 66, we predicted cases ripen for the Divorce Court, and
the case of Capt. Howard and Mrs. Bloss, who committed suicide, in
connection with Lady Constance Howard, who was instituting divorce
proceedings against her husband. On the same page we foretold of
cases of cruelty to women and children, and in this connection, the
awful case of Mr . Phelan, in the Midlands, brought to light by the
Society for the prevention of cruelty to children, is most notable. It
is an even worse case than the Montague one .
Betronomtc
meteorolog~.-foreeeetng
llllleatber.
T HE preceding details will, I think, suffice to explain the
principles constituting the true science of the weather-
" Astronomic Meteorology "-as well as the sources and causes
of the fallacies and failures of the "Astro;" or occult sys~em.
In elucidating the subject, I have been, necessarily, somewhat
diffuse. It may be of use, therefore, to !mm up more concisely
and methodically with the following :-
RECAPITULATION OF THE PRINCIPLES OF "ASTRONOMIC
METEOROLOGY."
1.-That the Earth and planets, as members of our solar
system, exercise a certain influence over and upon each other,
denominated their "Attraction "-such influence, as a disturbing
force, being demonstrated by observations and discoveries in
"solar physics," which have revealed the existence of similar
disturbances in the atmosphere or envelope of the Sun, and
which disturbances are recognised by eminent astronomers and
physicists to arise from the influence of Mercury, Venus, Mars,
and Jupiter, at least-if not by all the planets-produce sudden
and enormous changes and disruptions of its atmosphere.
Hence the well-grounded hypothesis of a similar influence and
action between the planetary orbs themselves.
2.-That, as exemplified upon the Earth, this force of
"Attraction " has the effect (acting in certain sign-angular posi-
tions) of attracting, expanding, and rarefying its atmospheric
envelope, causing the evolution of heat and moisture in the
phenomena of .evaporation, and the absorption and retention of
these two elements in its mass or volume. That such action
accelerates and intensifies during the formation and to the
"culmination" of such sign-angular positions, counteracting and
overpowering the inherent" force" of the terrestrial" gravitation ."
That the completion of such angular position is the culmination
of its attractive force, which, thus waning, is ove.ccome and
superseded by the equally sudden and constantly increasing
"counter-force" of terrestrial gravitation, so that the atmosphere
is contracted and condensed, and its constituents of heat and
moisture so set free in the liquid and solid forms of rain, snow,
and hail-aurorre, lightning, and meteors-along with other
disturbances, extremes, and vicissitudes of terrestrial condition,
manifested in the evolution and development of magnetic or
'! earth " currents, storms, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and
subterranean explosions, destructive of human life and welfare.
116 ASTRONOMIC METEOROLOGY.
3.-That such influence and phenomena appear, from the

observation of facts, to be created and take place more particu-
larly at such times as the Earth, progressing in its orbit . 1. Pauses
between or forms a line with the Sun and a planet or planets (as
? d 0' or 6' 8 0) [" LINEAR POSITIONS"] ; 2. Forms any
angular position in the zodiac of 30°, 60°, 90°, 120°, or 150°, with
any other planet, as seenfrom the Earth [" RECURRENT POSITIONS"].
4.-That every such influential position is intensified by the
occurrence or accumulation of such attractive force, arising from
the accidental positions of two or more planets [" COMBINED
POSITIONS "] in the degrees of signs of the zodiac corresponding
with the degree of the sign through which the Earth may be
travelling at any particular period. As a consequence of such
combination of angular positions, there ensues that suddenness
and intensity of " reaction " by which so many seasons and
periods are distinguished, more especially those of the equinoxes
and solstices.
5.-That, from the relative difference in the rates of motion
between the Earth, Venus, and Mars, in various parts of their
orbit, there arise periods [" SEASON POSITIONS"] during which
the Earth and those planets move in close sign-angular position
during longer or shorter intervals, and the creation of similar
periods of attractive force, causing remarkable extensions and
extremes of drought and rainfall, or severe and brilliant weather
[" BELT WEATHER"], followed by periods of great violence and
disaster, of immense injury to agriculture and navigation.
6.-That between such periods of planetary position there is
a period formed by the passage of the Earth from the sign-
angular position of a preceding to a succeeding influence, termed
the "TRANSITION" (or "x ") period, productive of great extremes
and fluctuations of temperature and pressure, as well as of other
atmospherical and terrestrial vicissitudes and disturbances,
arising from the antagonistic action of the two forces of
(planetary) Attraction and (terrestrial) Gravitation, more ener-
getically in operation at such periods of " transition " influence.
The combined operation of these forces make up what is termed
"the weather," and which it is the object of "Meteorology" to
observe, delineate, and foresee, for the wants and purposes of
science and practical life.
This, I think, will make the whole subject plain and clear.
In my next, I purpose to give the chart of positions for 1894, so
that students may, by observation, test the science for them-
selves, and learn the art (as yet in its infancy) of "Foreseeing
Weather."
FREDERIC PRl\TT.
\tbe 'Wleatber.
(Continued from page 92.)
A PART from the mutual or solar aspects of the planets,

there are other indications of weather to be derived from
their motions.
I. Planets changing their signs.
2. Planets crossing the equator.
3. Planets stationary.
These produce distinct effects, and must be taken in con-
nection with other indications when judging the weather.
There are some, like Dr. Goad, John Gadbury, and others, who
divide the zodiac into various parts, attributing to certain degrees
in each size the names of" dark," "smoky," "pitted," "bright,"
&c., and to these they add the nebulous constellations Pleiades,
Asselli, &c., affirming that the rising of the planets with these
degrees produces distinct changes in the atmosphere, and, indeed,
Dr. Goad lays greatest stress upon them. It is also observable
that within three days of the new or full Moon a downfall of
some sort will be observed almost invariably.
But, as I am of opinion that all these detailed causes are
subsidiary to the Solar aspects, I think it sufficient for general
observations to regard the Solar aspects only, and in them alone
there is sufficient evidence of the general truth that the weather
is controlled by the planets. Moreover, taking into consideration
the fact that the same weather does not uniformly obtain in
several localities on the same day, I deem it more prudent to
deal with periods of a few days than with single dates, and to this
extent, I think, weather predictions may be trusted. I need
hardly say that separate tables have to be prepared for different
countries. Here in India it would be quite absurd to apply the
English rules of planetary influence upon the weather, and the
native astrologers have their own rules for predicting the date of
that all-important event, the monsoon, upon which depends so
much of the resources cf the land. I think it a difficult but not
impossible task for English astrologers to perfect their science to
cover daily predictions of the weather, and I trust the day may
soon come when astro-meteorology will obtain the scientific con-
sideration it so much deserves. ·
SEPHARIAL.
please enclose a stamped addressed envelope .
contained.
DEARSIR,-ln the current number of the Magazine, "Raphael"

points out some glaring blunders by Pearce in his paper. I wish to
point out a few more which seem to have escaped your notice so far.
In Zadkiel's Almanac for 1893, on page 13, Pearce predicts," A royal
wedding will be celebrated this month" (May). It did not come off
that month, but it did three months after; only three months out ! So
much for mathematical precision. Next, his August weather predic-
tions. Nearly every day he was wrong. So much for his weather
predictions. Next, on page 49 of his Almanac, as to Melbourne, he
prophecies," At first, public affairs will not go well, but they improve
as the season advances." The facts are reversed, for the first part of
the quarter things were quiet, but instead of improving as the season
advanced (predicted by Pearce), only about 15 banks smashed, and the
authorities ordered a three days' bank holiday; but it did not restore
public confidence. This is what he calls "improving." He evidently
left school before his education was completed, and, as a proof of this,
I would just point out there are only thirty-two silly blunders in his May
number. Is it possible to get the horoscope of his paper?
Yours truly, MEDICO.
[The blunders pointed out by our correspondent have not escaped
our notice. The author of these blunders has been sowing a quantity
of tares, and a crop of fearful blunders is the result. We are reserving
them for use at the right time, and thank our other friends who have
pointed out his shortcomings, all of which are duly noted.-ED.]
BOMBAY, 21st October, 1893.

DEARSIR,-With reference to" Sepharial's" communication, pub-
lished in your Nos. 1, 2, and 3 of Vol. IV., I have to make the following
observations.
There is no doubt that the Eastern astrology is far superior to
the Western.
With reference to" Sepharial's" statement that Bhawphal accord-
ing to the Sayan and Niryan systems he says corroborates with each
other, I should say that he is mistaken in giving such a judgment.
On referring to his natus I find his ascendant stands at 27° I ,
and, while turning it into Niryan, remains at 5° I, and hence the
zodiacal sign on his ascendant does not alter, whether the system be
Sayan or the Niryan, and consquently the Bhawphal, which has been
told him by the Madras native astrologer came exactly to meet with
the events during his life.
I would ask" Sepharial" to place "Aphorel's" map in the hands
of the Madras astrologer, which should be done after turning it to
Niryan, and then see whether the very astrologer who has satisfied
him gives a correct detailed account of what had occurred to
"Aphorel" during his past life.
"Sepharial '' published the following in the Theosophic Gleaner for
October, 1893 :-
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR, II9
"THE $CIENTIFIC VALUE OF ASTROLOGY.
" All questions will be answered by both a European and a Hindoo
astrologer; there will thus be two sets of answers to every question,
which answers, let us hope, will confirm one another, and agree with
facts."
If he emphatically says like the above, I would ask him to take a
trial on Mr. "Aphorel's" natus in the way I have suggested, and then
let your readers see whether the Bhawphal by the Niryan and Sayan
maps agree.
In the Oriental astrology there are a good many works which are
yet unknown to many astrologers on our side. There are some that
are known very widely here and in Europe, and I am afraid the
combinations given therein would not agree with a N iryan map or
maps whose ascendant stands from 15° to 30° of any zodiacal sign.
For instance, if the N iryan 2 3 ° 111.ascends it would be 15°of 111.
by Sa yan,
and therefore the combination for the l'1. ascendant would differ from
that of~. Yours truly, AMATEUR.
[We should like a complete list of Eastern works on astrology,
where published, and price. Can any of our Hindu friends oblige
us ?-Eo.]
DEAR SIR,-1 must once more take up the argument in regard to

the "exaltation degrees" of the planets. "Raphael" admits that
these "degrees" are not, with him, a matter of experience, whatever
the" signs" may be. His authority for the degrees given in his Guide,
Vol. I., is Varaha Mihira. It is true that these degrees are given by
the Hindu astrologer in his Brihat J ataka, but they do appear to be
subject to any alteration due to precession of the equinoxes, and as
Mihira was well acquainted with this phenomenon, I think he would
have made mention of the fact bad he intended the degrees to be
referred to the Sayana Sphutam, or the zodiac which begins with the
vernal equinox. It is true that during the liletime of Mihira, 416-572,
A.D., the star Revati was on the equinox, but throughout his Jataka
and Sanhita his observations are referred to Revati and not the equinox,
since in his own knowledge they were separable ; though accidentally
coincident at his time. Moreover the followers of Mihira speak of
"griha svocha,n," planets in their own exaltations, and" griha svaneeckam,"
planets in their fall, even now, and of course they speak in reference
to their own zodiac; so that when ? is in 111. rn° according to us,
with them it is in ~ 21° and in exaltation. So much with regard to
the "degrees of exaltation."
As regards the "signs" of exaltation, to which reference is more
usually made among us, I think it not unlikely that the European
zodiac has some distinct affinity with human affairs among Europeans,
while it is quite certain that the Hindu zodiac has reference to Hindu
affairs. I have put the matter to a test more than once, and have
submitted my horoscope, expressed in terms of both European and
Hindu zodiacs, to the same Jyoshi, with the result that the judgment
drawn from the European suited me, while that from the Hindu did
not. I think it would be interesting and instructive to have a few
figures drawn up according to both styles, and judgment made there-
from. If you care to send me one or two important figures, I will
make the necessary conversion, and by this means I think the question
should be in some part decided. SEPHARIAL.
S1R,-l think "Sepharial" has overlooked one point in his remarks

upon the first horoscope in the "Infantile Mortality" series, on page
9. It is necessary to know not merely whether a child will die, but
when it will die. Now it is usually stated that children dying before
the age of four years are killed by position and not by direction. The
introduction of that method of directing called the "process," on the
contrary, seems to go some way towards proving that it is quite possible
to predict dangerous periods even during the early years of life. The
system of taking successive signs from the ascendant to indicate suc-
cessive years of life seems to me a valuable one, when combined with
secondary progression and planetary periods.
"Sepharial's" reasoning on family polarity is very interesting. It
certainly seems to be a fact that the incursion of a foreign ego into a
family (by birth or marriage), or the loss of a member of a family by
death, disturbs the balance of harmony, and causes a wave of dis-
turbance to flow through the members of the family. I have seen
several illustrations of it.
1.-My brother S. married in 1887. His marriage was the signal
for a prolonged period of trouble and anxiety for me and for my brother
A., although his marriage had, on the outward plane, no connection
whatever with the said troubles. They began for both of us just after
our brother S.'s marriage, continued for a long time, and both came to
an end together, although in our occupations and mode of life we were
not associated in any way. The reason I give for it is that my Moon
and my brother A.'s were both in the same place at birth, and my
brother S.'s wife had her Sun conjunction Mars in the same sign of
the zodiac as our moons. Henc~ the direction of the wave of dis-
turbance, which did not affect tlie rest of the family.
2.-My mother died October, 1891. Her Moon was near my
sister's Sun. Within twelve months after her death, my sister's
husband had left his profession, intending to resume it in a more
advantageous locality ; but his designs were frustrated, and a pro-
longed period of ill luck seems to be pursuing them. The association
of luminaries again explains the direction taken by the wave of dis-
turbance.
3.-In October, 1891, my mother was lying at my house, dying.
By the Hindu system the mother is indicated by the fourth house,
and this governs the dwelling place of the native. While my mother
was dying, a domestic servant three times attempted to set my house
on fire, and very nearly succeeded. At birth, Mars ruled my fourth
house, and was in conjunction with Saturn, lord of the sixth, servants.
LEO.
Snewereto <torresponbents.
F. N.-It would be best for you to write them direct, we are not
sufficiently interested in the matter.
W,-Your judgment of the map is very good indeed; thanks for the
information, we shall be pleased to hear from you again. We
prefer to answer through the post.
E. C.-We are always willing to give all the assistance in our power,
and will answer your questions with pleasure if you enclose
stamped envelope, addressed. We recommend" Raphael's" Key
to Astrology, price 1 / - •
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No. VI.-" RAPHAEL."
T HE nativity of the notable astrologer who uses the pseudonym

of" Raphael," will be studied with interest by all students,
many of .whom owe him a debt of gratitude for placing astrology
in a cheap form, void of all abstruse technicalities, before the
masses, and thus endeavouring to pro.ve it is not specially for the
well-to-do, who alone are able to pay the high price charged for
certain abstruse, unreliable mathematical emanations, but that it
is a science for all, poor and rich.
It will first be seen that notable signs are angular, Mars,
ruling the ascendant, is in Cancer in the fifth house, the Moon,
strong in her own sign, angular in the fourth. Saturn and
Uran us in Aries in the ascending sigri, therefore he is a" notable"
or a "known man" in the true sense of the word. The Sun, who
is in the second house, and who has dignities in the ascendant, is
in sextile to Mars, but as Mars is in Cancer, many would consider
the planet of energy debilitated, but, as will be seen, it is exactly
on the threshold of the fiery sign Leo, and in my opinion may be
considered as in the" royal sign"; hence, the aspect being benefic,
good will accrue from this, but as the Sun in the second is a
G
122 MODERN ASTROLOGERS,-"RAPHAEL."
grand position for spending money, I judge "Raphael" has been

pretty free with it, and as the fifth will affect his children, they
will help him from accumulating too much . Venus rules the
second, and is on the cusp of the third, in the mercurial sign
Gemini in conjunction with Mercury, in the third house; hence
he largely gains by literary publications, etc., ruled by the third
house (the number sold of his almanac for 1893 was 200,000) .
There are, however, certain drawbacks which will arise from the
semi-square of Jupiter and the two malefics (Mars and Uranus),
to the third house. The Moon's position in the fourth house is
evidence that the end of life will be very satisfactory. The
configurations to the third house are expressive of originality in
astrologi~al research, but the semi-square of Jupiter from the
sixth house (illness), is an argument that his health would suffer
in consequence.
The position of the evil Saturn in the ascendant, points to a
certain amount of reserve which is inherent, and will never be
entirely eradicated, and the proximity of Uranus will give a tinge
of Bohemianism to the character, and being in Aries (the sign of
the head) will act _upon the intuition, rendering it very good;
the square to Mars will give a certain amount of restlessness, l,ut
it will make, or cause him to say cutting things on occult
subjects, when aroused, that his astrological calumniators will
hardly appreciate, and that he will always experience annoyance
of a sort from them is denoted by the occult planet in square to
his significator, and in semi-square to the tenants of his third
house.
Another point worthy of note is that six planets are rising,
and that the malefics, Saturn and Uran us, are in "elevation,"
hence he has had many obstacles and stumbling blocks to
surmount, which, by the astral indications in his natal figure, he
has been able to do, and to do so successfully, the key to which
will be found in glancing at the fourth house.
Attention may also be drawn to the fact that all the planets
are below the Earth; according to some questionable authorities
he should be a "nobody," yet his name in connection with
astrological matters, and his almanac, is world-wide, which may
be traced, as before remarked, to the cardinal signs being
angular. Mathematical ability is shewn by Mercury's position
in the third house, and it manifests itself in "third house"
matters, occult literature to wit, in his case.
~rofecttonalIDtrccttone.
A GOOD
in the
deal of interesting evidence has been brought forward
Astrologers' Magazine lately, to witness the working
value of the system of directions known as" Profections." There is
a similar system in vogue in the North of India, but it cannot be
called Hindu, because it was introduced by the Mohammedans
and is nowhere expounded in the jyotish s' dstras. It is nowhere
quoted from the works of Garga, Paras'ara or Narada, and it is
not found in those of Vara.ha Mihira. The most perfect exposi-
tion of the system which I have found in the West, is that of
Argo!' Andrea, who, in the year 1652, dedicated a work called
Ptolemeus Parvus to Christina, Queen of Sweden. In this work
he sets forth Ptolemy's method of finding out the times of events,
which is simply the system of profections in use among both
European and Asiatic astrologers.
I have gone carefully into the matter in order to discover
whether there are any essential differences between the Eastern
and Western systems , and I find none, except that due to the
pointing of the ecliptic circle which makes the Eastern zodiac
commence at 19° 22' 30" of our Aries, with an annual plus
increment of 50". The common calendar, which makes the
Hindu year begin on the 12th April, 22° after the equinox, is
admitted by all exponents of astronomy in India to be incorrect.
However, to return to our subject, I managed, after some
little experiment, to bring the system into a tabular form, so that
when the tables are drawn up for any particular horoscope, the
succession of events may be easily seen.
The first of these tables consists of a category of all the
zodiacal aspects formed to the M.C. Ase., 0 > and the planets,
the aspects being taken in the order in which they fall in the
successive signs from Aries to Pisces.
The second table contains the months of the year, beginning
with that of birth, and against these the degrees and minutes
held by the planets M.C. Ase., &c., are set; the longitude at
birth being against the month of birth, and the increase being at
the rate of 2° 30' per month. Thus the degrees and minutes of
the profectional signs held by any significator during any month
are at once apparent.
The third table contains the profectional signs held by the
various significators during any year of life.
In order to illustrate this, I have reproduce,! the three tables
prepared from my own horoscope, as follows :-
TABLE 1.-ASPECTARIUM,
o ~ ~ In I 2D I SL n~ ~ ! 111. , _,__ 11,,j'

- -------- - - 1-
... 8 . .. 6 D * ...IMC.
cl .. . I * D 24
o Q L ? L 54
L L IO
3
4
5
6 L L Q 16
7 Q L ) L I 43
8 D 8 6 D o cl 26
9
* Q Q L
*
Ase. L 32
IO
II
12 Q L 31
L L 'i? 40
L Q L 0 43
Q L MC. L Q 24
15
8 6 D ? cl 54
16 D 6
* 8 * D 6
~ cl
17
* 6 D
* I
IO
18
19
20
21 * Wcl * D 6 8 6 D 16
22 6
D * )cl * D 6 8 43
23 Q Q L 0 L 26
24 6 8 6 D * Ase. cl
* D 32
25
26
27 8 6 D * J.+cl * D 6 31
28 * D 6 8 6 D
* * 'i? cl 40
29 * D 6 8 6 D 0 cl 43
.- - _j
TABLE II.-PROFECTIONAL DEGREES.
Month. 0 ) Ase. M.C. w ? 2+ d' 'i' ~

0 , 0 , Q , 0 , 0 , 0 , 0 , 0 , 0 ,
0 '
March 20 ... 29.43 22.43 24.32 0.24 21 .16 15·54 27.31 8.26 28.40 16.10
April 20 ... 2.13 25.13 27.2 2.54 23.46 18.24 0.1 10.56 I.IO 18.40
---- ---- ---- ----
May 20 ... 4 .43 27.43 29.32 5.24 26.16 20.54 2.31 13.26 3.40 21.IO
--- -
June 20 ... 7.r3 0.13 2.2 7.54 28.46 23.24 5.1 15.56 6.10 23.40
~ July 20 ... 9.43
I
4·32 10.24 1.16 25.54 7.31 18.26 8.40 26.10
~
~
;t
August 20 ... 12.13 '431
5-13 7.2 12.54 i
i
I
3.46 28.24 IO.I 20.56 I I.IO 28.40
I ---- -
I
I
September 20 ... 14.43 7.43 9. 32 15.24 6.16 0.54 12.31 23.26 13.40 I. IO
I
October 20 ... 17.13 rn.13 I 12.2 17.54 8.46 3· 24 15.1 25.56 16.10 3.4o
I - - -- ----
November 20 ... 19 ·43 12.43 14.32 20.24 I I. 16 5.54 17.31 28.26 18.40 6.10
----
0
cg: December 20 ... 22.13 15.13 I 17.2 22.54 13.46 8.24 20.I 0.56 21.IO 8.40
N. ----- ----
~ January 20 .. . 24.43 17.43 19.32 25.24 16.16 10.54 22.31 3.26 23.40 I I.IO
-'i ---- -- --
CJ February 20 .. . 27.13 20.13 22.2 27.54 18.46 13.24 25 .1 5.56 26.10 13.40
0
a
....-
(i)
March 20 ... 29 ·43
N.B.-Profectional
22.43
Motion for
24.32
ONE
0.24
DAY=5'.
21.16 15·54 27.31
The dark lines indicate a change of Sign.
8.26 I 28.40 16.10
ltbe moon tn <taprtcorn.
I N most of the books devoted to astrology, both ancient and
modern, we are told that the Moon posited in the sign
Capricorn at a nativity is badly placed. That she is in her
detriment, and that the fortune and character of the native will
be prejudicially affected. Now, as I am desirous of ascertaining
- whether all modern astrologers concur in this dictum, I do not
wish to say anything which can be considered presumptuous in
one who has only had an astrological experience of twenty-five
years or so, remembering, as I do, that even an experience of
half-a-century is all too little to justify the expression of an
absolute opinion upon such a question. Still, as it is only by a
careful and diligent examination and analysis of precedents that
we can hope to formulate a law, I may, perhaps, be allowed to
call the attention of astrologers to some cases and horoscopes in
which the Moon was so posited in Capricorn, and, as far as I can
see, with quite a contrary effect to that which we have been
taught to expect.
I am, myself, very strongly inclined to think that the Moon
suffers no detriment in Capricorn, a_nd I consider the following
cases and horoscopes justify me in this opinion.
I may be told that I ignore other positions in these horoscopes
which neutralize the affliction which the Moon suffers by being
in Capricorn. If, however, this ground is taken by anyone, then
I must ask that person to say distinctly how much power he
attributes to the position which he suggests neutralizes the
alleged affliction of the Moon.
I think it is time that some attempt were made to attach a
definite value to each position and aspect. It would be well for
this purpose to make use of numbers. Assuming the Moon's
maximum power for good in a horoscope to be 100, I should
assign 100 to the Moon in conjunction with the M.C. in Cancer,
and also 100 to the Moon in conjunction with the M.C. in
Capricorn. Both are cardinal signs, and having regard to the
cases and horoscopes I cite, I think it is clear that the Moon
suffers no detriment in Capricorn, at least as far as her influence
is concerned in connection with worldly power and fame, or
wealth.
I hope no one will avoid the point by suggesting that different
values attach to different degrees of each sign. I do not say that
THE MOON IN CAPRICORN. 127
the value of each degree is the same, I think it highly probable the
degrees do vary in value, but, for the present purpose, I wish to
treat the signs as if all the degrees were of the same value.
Later on, when we have more experience, we can proceed to
investigate the different values of each degree.
Whilst upon this subject of the value of different degrees of a
sign, I may mention my belief that certain degrees of the zodiac
vary in value in different centuries, or, at least, in every two
hundred years. At the present time, I believe the ninth degree
of Capricorn to be the most important in the whole zodiac. I
have not space now to give my reasons for this, but I hope to
have an opportunity of doing so before very long. Those who
are well read in astrology will, from this hint, easily arrive at the
nature of the argument I shall put forward . The proofs in
support of this proposition are, to my mind, ample . But this is
a digression. I now give the horoscopes in which the Moon is
posited in Capricorn .
Fredk . Wm.V. KingofPrussia,}'Y' 02.24 st asc. 18.57 2/. 27.36

Emperor of Germany, ~ if 15.28 lll W9.59 ? 14.52 * *
Born March 22nd, 1797 n ? 21.43 vs>25.24 ~ 7.22 *
Sir Robert Peel, } n 21.16.36 vs>26.47
Born February 5th, 1788 : '~?st :::0 16.28
Lord Palmerston, }"°'027.44 vs>

Born October 20th, 1784 =0: J
Duke of Argyll, ) ~ 0 ~p8 )
Born April 30th, 1823 f ~ 0 1.24 VS 7.37
Sir Garnet Wolsey, } n o 1,c) 8
Born June 4th, 1833 n 0• 14
o -2< 0
o\, o 4 •.;
Earl Spencer, · }n1.03.22

Bom October 27th, 1835 111if 18.29 v:' >x8.35
Thos . Alva Edison, . }""W 11.34 I asc. 5.18 :::0 22.55

Born February 11th, 1847 ~ 2l 6.50 VS>7.48::: ~ 19.30
st M.C. 12.32 11·if 1.22 ? 6.47 '?2.4 *
Charles V., Emperor of )
Germany,
Born February 23rd, 1500
f ~ 0 24.40 VS>6.45
d asc. 0 14.30 *
Fredk. Gonzaga, }~ 0 62
Duke of Mantua, • · asc.
Born April 26th, 1587
128 THE MOON IN CAPRICORN.
John Columna, )
Patriarch of Jerusalem, l ~ 0 2.19 115')23.34
Born April 21st, 1612 J M.C.
George III., }n
Born June 4th, 1738 0 14°
Napoleon I., } 22 1
Born August 15th, 1769 Sl,~.c."4 lll
d' 12.1
If, after having investigated these horoscopes, any astrologer

is still bold enough to maintain the ancient doctrine that the
Moon suffers affliction in Capricorn, I shall be glad to hear how
he supports his contention, and I shall be anxious to learn how
he accounts for the evil influence not having exerted itself in the
cases cited. If he contends that such influence was felt by the
natives, I hope he will explain in what way it showed itself. I
would suggest that we only discuss at present the effect of the
Moon in Capricorn upon worldly power and fame, and upon
wealth, but this is only a suggestion. Our object, of course, is to
arrive at some definite principle, as regards these two points, and
to avoid, as far as possible, being led away by the discussion into
what, for the present purpose, we must regard as minor matters.
With the greatest possible submission to all the great and able
writers, both of the past and the present, whose labours no one can
appreciate more highly than I do, I cannot help being of opinion
that astrology would have made greater progress if a system of
classification had been adopted, and if methodical records of cases
and horoscopes had been filed. That there would have been
difficulties, I admit, but now that astrology is really reviving, and
that so many people in all parts of the world are taking up the
study of it, the time seems ripe to make an effort in the direction
I suggest. I am prepared to submit a scheme of classification, so
that those coming after us may not alone have text books to refer
to, but records of horoscopes and lives which they can cite at
once in support of any particular proposition. At present, we
have no methodical records . Those records we have are mixed
up and scattered about in old and new books and magazines,
whilst the text books of the science contain far too many maxims
and propositions, stated without any attempt at proof, and often
quite unsupported by references to horoscopes and cases. If we
had such records as I suggest, I could at once, in support of the
proposition I am now maintaining-that the Moon suffers no
MUNDANE ASTROLOGY, 129
detriment in Capricorn-have referred to Record Vol. so-and-so,

page so-and-so, and at a glance we should have had a reference
to horoscopes and lives of forty or fifty famous men, all having
the Moon in Capricorn.
To form such records as I suggest, we should require the help
of many students. If this idea is entertained I am prepared to
assist, to the best of my ability, as I am quite convinced that
what we require is " Classification ! Classification ! ! Classifica-
tion ! ! ! " Without it no progress will be made, but this work,
once commenced, I have little doubt that before many years an
Astrological College will become an accomplished fact.
If any astrologer is inclined to assist in the formation of a
record for the Moon in Capricorn I shall be glad to receive par-
ticulars of the horoscopes of any eminent men or women at whose
births the Moon held this position in the zodiac.
AQUARIUS.
munbaneBstrolog~.
NEw MooN.
January 7th, 1894, 3-h. 7-m.,
a.m., London.
I N the figure given above for the N eomenia, Uran us is on cusp

of the ascendant, in sextile to the conjoined luminaries, on
the cusp of the third. Uran us so placed implies an unsettled
state with the working class, strikes are not unlikely, but as the
luminaries are in good aspect on a significant house, correspon-
dence re "boards of conciliation" will be entered into. Mars
near cusp of the second, in square to Venus on cusp of fourth, is an
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130 MUNDANE ASTROLOGY.
argument in favour of activity in financial circles, but much crime

amongst the opposite sex, and a rather high rate of mortality.
At St. Petersburg, Saturn is in M.C., Mars applying to the
semi-square in a fiery sign, a conflagration or explosion at a
public building is probable.
At New York, an evil month may be expected; much crime,
financial disasters, appalling accidents, and much illness.
T HE above map shews the planetary positions at the moment

of the Sun's entry into Capricornus. Mercury is ruler of
the figure, is in his detriment, and is receiving the opposition of
the Moon, whilst Mars separates from the opposition of the
greater benefic. •
The health of the people during the rule of the fi~ure will be
far from good, epidemics will cause the medical profession to
have a busy time. Deaths will occur in the ranks of politicians,
much excitement in parliamentary circles . There will be busy
times in the Foreign Office, our colonial relations being in a very
unsettled state, and it will require extreme skill on the part of
the State helmsman to prevent conflict by force of arms. Mars
and Jupiter being in opposition from "earthquake" signs, seismic
disturbances and appalling disasters in connection may be
expected.
It will be noticed that Neptune is rising; it is not improbable
that his proximity to the Moon, and the opposition of Mercury,
will engender dissatisfaction between master and servant, and
strikes are more than likely to result through the agency of
agitators, aptly signified by Mercury opposition Moon.
'Rotes on 1binbuBstrolog\?.
From the "Brihat Jataka," and other works.
!.-THE ZODIAC.
T HE first point to be noticed, on dealing with the astrology

of the Hindus, is that the Nirayana zodiac they use in their
calculations is fundamentally different to the Sayana zodi ac used
by us western astrologers. Our zodiac is measured from the
point where the Sun passes over the equator at the vernal equinox;
this is the ascending node of the Sun, and the first point of Aries.
The opposite point, the first degree of Libra, is the part where
the Sun passes across the equator in its southern motion at the
autumnal equinox, this being the descending node of the Sun.
The eastern Nirayana zodiac is measured from a star called
Revati, situated on the ecliptic, and as this star is stated to have
" disappeared " one cannot help feeling some surprise at the
confidence our Hindu brethren place in their zodiac. Mr. N.
Chidambaram Iyer, B;A., tr anslator of the Brihat Jataka, states
that he has "discovered" that the first point of the Nirayana
zodiac, on the 1st January, 1883, was 20° 24' 15" in advance of
the Sayana zodiac. That is to say, the first degree of their zodiac
would start at our 20° 'Y' 24' . This distance between the first
points of the two zodiacs is called the AJanamsa, and the worst
of it is that Hindu astrologers do not seein to be agreed as to
what the true Ayanamsa is. Six estimates are quoted in the
Brihat Jataka, all different, and as the translator states that " the
exact length of the Ayanamsa is not known, and it cannot be
ascertained by direct observation, because the star Reva-ti has
disappeared," one cannot help wondering how it was he "dis-
covered" the Ayanamsa to be what we have just stated.
In the Brihat Sanhita, Mr. N. Chidambaram gives us the
further particulars which he omitted in the Brihat Jataka. He
says, "I have discovered it to be 20° 24 ' 15" on the 1st January,
1883, and my discovery rests on the Druva Nadi, a work of
Satyachariar, a great astronomer." The reader is referred for
particulars to the Theosophist for April, 1883.
In the book entitled A Guide to Hindu Astrology, by Mr. T. S.
Narayariaswami Iyer, we find a rule that runs thus: "Ayanamsa-
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132 HINDU ASTROLOGY,
kala is found by subtracting 3,600 years from the total number of

years passed since the beginning of Kaliyuga, multiplying the
remainder by 9, and then dividing by 10. The quotient thus
obtained must be taken to be so many minutes" (of space,
evidently).
Now we know the first five thousand years of Kaliyuga expire
in February, 1898. Applying the rule, we find that the Ayanamsa
for the present year, 1893, comes out at 20° 55'.
Prof. K. L. Chatre adopted the star Zeta Piscium as the lost
Revati, giving Ayanamsa of 18° 14 20 on 1st January, 1883, but
1 11
the objection is made that Revati was on the ecliptic, and Zeta
Piscium is not.
In a note appended to Gerald Massey's lecture on The Hebrew
and other Creations, it is stated that the vernal equinox entered
Taurus 4,565 B.c., and Aries 2,410 B.c., and that these dates were
corroborated by independent calculations made at Greenwich by
the Astronomer Royal. This would give the entry into Pisces as
255 B.c., and into Aquarius as 1,900 A,D, If these calculations were
correct, it would be equivalent to saying that the Ayanamsa, at
the present time, is about 30°.
In the Secret Doctrine (" The Zodiac and its Antiquity") a
lengthy quotation is given from Bailly, the French Astronomer,
who argues that in the year 3,102 B.c. the first point of the Hindu
zodiac was situated at about 6° Aquarius in terms of our zodiac.
If this were true, the first point of the Nirayana zodiac at the
prest:.nt time would be at about 16° Aries, and the Ayanamsa
would be about 16 degrees.
We must leave the true Ayanamsa an open question, but
students will see that at the very outset of our enquiries into
Hindu astrology we are confronted with a serious difficulty. We
do not know the real position of the signs in the N irayana zodiac,
and unless our Hindu brethren can give us other and more reliable
information, it would seem a waste of time to erect horoscopes
by any other than our usual Sayan system.
We lean to the opinion that the best results will follow from
a reasonable amalgamation of eastern and western ·rules and
aphorisms ; and that these should be applied to our western Sayan
zodiac.
(To b, contin111d,)
ttbe Stubents'<torner.
BY " RAPHAEL,"
WHAT CONSTITUTES AN ASTROLOGER?
G REAT misconception prevails amongst many who ought to

know better,as to what constitutes an astrologer, I therefore
propose to analyse the point. In plain language, an astrologer is a
person who understands astrology. But what is astrology? It is
the correct interpretation of the influences of the planets, zodiac,
&c. Does erecting a map of the heavens denote an astrologer?
Certainly not, because it is all a matter of recko.ning, and anyone
with a little mathematical knowledge can do this with ease and
facility. Does the calculation oi ephemerides, tables of houses,
or "speculums" constitute an astrologer? Decidedly not. These
all relate to mathematics, and anyone without the least astrologic
skill can produce ephemerides, &c., &c., to satiety. Is the
calculation of planetary aspects, or directions of any kind,
evidence of astrologic skill ? By no means, all these relate to
mathematics rather than astrology. No, as above stated, an
astrologer is, or ought to be a person as understands not the
calculation but the signification of the different aspects and
positions of the planets. Therefore, a person may be an
astrologer and a good one too, who cannot so much as set a map
correctly. He may employ others to do the mathematical part,
yet be able to give a most excellent judgment himself. In my
experience I have known cases of this sort. Mathematics are
knowledge which anyone, from a fool to a philosopher, can acquire
by study. Astrology is intuition, and must to a large extent be
born with a person. Intuition is as far above knowledge as the
Sun is above the Moon. An astrologer should therefore be
judged ,by his astrological ability, and not by his mathematical
knowledge.
RAPHAEL .
P.S.-How much we have to learn! On page 73 of Zadkiel's
Almanac for 1893, we are told that "in nativities the significators
are the Sun, Moon, and Mercury." The other planets, of course,
are nothing. This is an astrological blunder.
In our remarks on the November New Moon, we called attention

to the position of Mercury in the mid-heaven opposed by Neptune.
It is worth noting that this has, been followed by the resignation of
the Italian ministry on the 24th November (Moon conjunction Neptune
opposition Mercury), and by that of the French ministry on the
following day.
"ttbeor\?of a new metbob of lDtrecttng.'t
T O a beginner like myself it seems that the weak point of

astrology is in the methods of" directing," none of which
can be implicitly relied on. I have a theory of my own, which I
will now proceed to give, founded on the quotation from page
163, Key of Theosophy, given by "Leo" at page 228 of your third
volume, "The Limitations of Astrology." If then the Ego
" sees futurity " between Devachan and re-birth, it must be
because the then motions of the stars foreshadow it, between
"Sepharial's" pre-natal epoch and the moment of birth. Usually
a period of 280 days intervenes between conception and birth,
while the length of life may be taken at about the three score
years and ten, at which the Bible limits it. Each day in the
embryonic stage would therefore represent about three months
of subsequent life, more or less, and eight hours a month. I
have put my theory in the fewest possible words and in the
barest possible manner. Living out of the world amidst the
fastnesses of the Himalayas, I have not the requisite means of
testing my theory. I therefore trust that it may be examined
by those of your readers who are fond of testing new theories, in
the hope of arriving at a possible reliable method of directing.
I should be much obliged to any of them who would thoroughly
test this theory of mine ; which, at least, I believe, possesses the
charm of novelty, if no other·.
"ATABEL."
A book called the Spherical Basis of Astrology has reached us from

America. It contains tables of houses for every degree of latitude
between 22° and 56° inclusive ; and the cusps of the minor houses,
i.e., eleventh, twelfth, second, third, and those opposite, are given to
one decimal place, thus making them more accurate than any yet
published. The tables are for north latitude, but the author describes
how they can easily be used for southern latitudes. He claims that
the usual Poles of the Houses as given in the ordinary works on
astrology are every one of them wrong, and hence that tables of
houses calculated from them are also inexact. He gives a new and
correct table of Approximate Poles, and explains his method of arriving
at them. We think the book will prove indispensable to all astrologers
who have to calculate horoscopes for places that are widely apart in
latitude . The author is Joseph G. Dalton. We can supply the book
on application. (See advertisement, page 3 of cover.)
* * * * *
The coal strike, which had lasted for three months (see notes on
pages 30 and 101) came to an end during November. When the
Moon was passing through Capricorn, Mr. Gladstone's ascendant, the
right honourable gentleman wrote a letter containing a proposal for a
committee of arbitration with Lord Roseberry as chairman. This
was successful in putting an end to the difficulty.
'I)
3nfantilemortaltt\?.
T HE next example is very interesting, and should prove
beyond a doubt the truth of astrology, if nothing else.
The ' facts of the case were sent me under cover, the letter stating
that it was a curious problem of two children (sisters), one killed
by an accident and the other escaped as by a miracle. No. I was
born at 8 o'clock in the morning, on June 21, 1874, lat. 53° 14' N.,
and No. 2 at 10.15 a.m., July 24, 1875. Students will do well to
study these cases very carefully, the horoscope of No. I is as
follows:-
Mid-heaven. IIth house. 12th." ascendant. 2nd. 3rd.
1° 8 30' 12°n qj320 18 st, 30
029°n43' ) 24° llJt ~ 24°q_a7' ? 29°q_a32' d' 3° qj352 2p3°llJt 26
? 13°.:::-42'~ J§8°st,26' 1i18,
No. 2.
M.C. IIth. 12th. ascendant. 2nd. 3rd. intercepted
6°q_a 13°st, ttJt12° 4 ~ 30 ~ 28 m 29 in 3rd t
0 I Sl, 4 ) 12° <f' 34 ~ 12° qj321 ? 14 qj337 (j' 21° / 22
2.p3 ~ 34 ? 24° = 21' :a. w 14 st, 42 w3 8.
The affliction in No. 1 radical figure is Sun sesquiquadrate
Saturn, Sun ruler of figure, Moon semi-square Herschel; and
Jupiter, who is lord of eighth, is also semi-square Herschel.
Saturn opposes ascendant and afflicts Moon and Jupiter by a
sesquiquadrate. The affliction in No. 2 is very slight in com-
parison with No. I, and the lord of the house of death is not
afflicted; the evil aspects are-Moon semi-square Saturn, square
Mercury and Venus.
The facts under cover were-" These two sisters were side by
side in a fire, both were rescued, the first badly burnt and died
shortly after on February 24th, 1881, about 12 o'clock at night.
The other, No. 2, who is, I believe, still alive, had her night-
dress burnt a little, but was untouched by the fire, and only
suffered from fright; the origin of the fire was a mystery."-E.C.
Now let us look at the planetary positions of No. I for six
y~ars, eight months, and three days after birth, which is
February 24, 1881. M.C. prog. 8° ~ 10', asc. prog. 22° Sl, 50',
0 6° qj3II', ) 14° I 37 ~ I 0 Sl, 50', ? 7° Sl, 35', d' 8° qj320', 2+24 ll'Jt,
=
1c13 25', ws· st 45'.
The aspects are) p. *? E,,) p, CJ?, 2+p.L Wp.,and *
~ d >&.
Now you would not say that these planetary aspects would
produce a violent death, yet this poor child was burnt to death
136 ASTRONOMIC METEOROLOGY,
by an accident, let us try the other system-M.C. prog. o W but

* o- and just separated from o S?-tJ 2+Ei lord of eighth, and
applying tJ ), 0 p. L asc. p. 3- p. L asc. p., truly a severe train, but
what forced it all into action and pointed to the time, we might
expect disasters to fall ? Note the processed ascendant for
February 24, 1881, is *
8° 45'. This sign is on the cusp of the
radical eighth, and is exact 150° to I§ p. and r;:J ~ Ei t:,. 0 and 3-,
but this t:,. 0 and 3- is counteracted by the M.C. process, which
is ttt. 21° 30' exact tJ 0 and 3-•
ERRATA.
On page 113 ? and ~ are wrongly placed in 'Ill!, they should both
be in'°=·
On page u7, line u, for size read sign.
Insert in the blank space on page 77 of this volume the word
"month."
Page 74, last line but one-" Moon had progressed to 28 ~ , "
O
should be "14 ~ 26," and on last line :::: should be J,J.
Setronomic
meterolog\?.
FORESEEING WEATHER: WHAT to OBSERVE, 1894.
· "There is every reason to hope that no very distant period may put us in
possession of the key to many of the most intricate meterological phenomena, and
enable us, though not to predict with certainty the state of the weather at any
given time or place, yet at least to form something like a probable conjecture as to
what will be the general course of the ensuing season-perhaps to prepare us before-
hand for violent or long-continued gales of wind, great drought, or extraordinary
wet seasons, &c., in the same manner that our knowledge of the nature and law of
the tides, though confessedly imperfect and in a great measure empirical, yet
enables to announce beforehand unusually high tides.-Sir John Herschel.
I N giving the table of" positions" for 1893 [Vol. 3, page 278]
it would, no doubt, have been more satisfactory to the
general reader had it been accompanied by the customary series
of" predictions," after the usual fashion of "weather guides."
But as the positions in the table-the earth's passage between
Jupiter and Uranus, and the singular intervals of positions in
the spring months-showed the year as likely to be one of
remarkable extreme, the nature of which was doubtful, I deemed
it better to explain the principles of the science, and then show
their working and action in an after review of the year and its
phenomena. But it seems that what has been already explained
of the machinery and motive force of weather will be made of
more scientific value by applying it to the future of 1894, so as
to make it understood by practical observation and record. The
following table shews the influences of the year:-
•
SIGN-ANGULAR " POSITIONS" BETWEEN THE EARTH AND PLANETS GOVERNING THE WEATHER AND SEASONS OF 18g4.
[1+ d tp .]
d0 d0
~
JAN,
19-30
12 days. '
I
w
4
(x) 1+ ?
7-8 II
_(~ -~ -- ~----- -----
14 19-20 25 29 31
' ~
JULY.
13-31
19 days.
w w (x)
3 6 8-9 II
? (x) 1+ (x)
13 15 17-18 20 27
~ (x)
-
FEB,
~ 13-19 d0 AUGUST,
w
7 days ~) w (x) 2+ ? ~ (~} ~ 1-24
d' 16-31
~ w (x) ? (x) 2+ d' (x)
d' 15-28 2 4 7-8 II 13 16 22-3 3 7 IO 13 18-19 24-25 29
15 days.
14 days.
MARCH. ? SEPT. d0
J' 1·20
~ 6-16
d' ~ ~d0 2+ (x) d' 22-30 ~ w (x) w (x) ? (x) d' 2+
2 IO 14 17 24 9 days. 2 4 6 8 12 16 21·2 27-28
18 days.
80 '?80
APRIL.
(x) ~ (x) ? (x)2+ (x) OcT.
J' d 0
(x) w tp (x) J' d 0 (x) 2+
2 4 7-8 II 17-18 24 28 8 days. 2 6 9 14-15 20·21 25 29
[ ? . .. 0 .. . Earth .. . J' J
MAY. Nov.
80 d0 d' 9-18 1!1 d0 d0
w (x) ? (x) ~ (x) (x) Wo0 ~ d' (x) ? 2+ ~
0
cg;
i'i
<1>
0.
I
' 2-3 6-7 IO 15 20 26-7 I
I
9 days.
~ Q 010 .JO
21 days
2-3 7 IO 14 19 24 26 30
~ !
-~ -
CJ
0
~ JUNE,
3 1-30.
~
2
Wo0
2+d 0
4
(x) ?
6-7 9 13
(x) d' (x)
17 25-6
I
I~ DEC.
d 0 1-20
d' 10-24
(x)
3
80
6
' w (x)
d' (x) 2+ ?
9 13-14 17 20 23 26
80
~ [Earth .. . 0 . .. 2+ .. • W] I 14 days. [ W .. . 2+ .. • Earth .. . 0 J

138 ASTRONOMIC
METEROLOGY.
In "foreseeing weather," the points to be considered are-
(r) The general nature of the YEARitself; (2) The nature of the
SEASONS,and their acceleration or retardation ; (3) The nature
and features of the MONTHS,their periods and changes, their
extremes and contrasts of temperature and pressure, of dryness
or rainfall, storms, &c., as indicated by the nature of the planets,
. and their ever varying positions and combinations with respect
to the earth and each other .
(I) THE YEAR.-ln explaining the table of positions for
1893, I alluded to the occurrence of the 14 year position of
2f. 8 W as one of the most probable causes of the anomalous
extremes and contrasts observed in different years . In this case
it was further coincident with spring months remarkable for a
general absence of " positions " for long intervals. The conse-
quence was the formation of a "belt" of circulation which left
Great Britain and much of the Continent in a state of drought,
without parallel in the century, only partially r~lieved by the
reaction of June-July. I need not say that it completely baffled
all the "predictors," none more so than the "Lunarists." The
first thing observable as ruling the general conditions of the year
is the recurrence of a similar position of Jupiter and Neptune,
which will have considerable influence for a more favourable
spring and summer, there being none of these barren periods for
which last spring was so remarkable. Other than this, the
general arrangements of the influences of the summer are such
as to hold forth promises of very favourable weather up to mid-
October, when we come to a crowd of solar positions, combined
with others of Mars and Venus, which will tend to a mild, but
very stormy close to the year.
(2) THE SEASONs.-SPRING promises to be much more
favourable. March commencing with the "season" influences
of Mars and Venus, hence a fair amount of rainfall may be
expected. The April and May are seen to be also very free from
any injurious extremes, and we may therefore fairly look for a
promising outlook for the crops. The SUMMER,generally, is
eqqally promising, the only check being the 2f.d W of June, from
':Vhichwe may expect borne extreme of heat, followed by a short
period of unsettled weather, or the reaction may be protracted
by the Mars' position, which overlies the 30 days. In this case,
haymaking should be in active operation, in case of a check in
the latter half. To finish, the first 20 days of July bid fair; after
ASTRONOMIC
METEROLOGY. 139
that the overlying position of Venus, culminating with Uranus,
August 3rd, may bring some unsettled weather. The last half,
however, is under the influence of Mars-most favourable for
harvest and harvest work. The AUTUMNis also most favourably
influenced, the only temporary check being from partial thunder
and rain storms about the periods of l;! d 0, and Mars-Jupiter at
close. After this last has cleared, we may get another fair and
dry period to the 18th or 20th, which should be made good use
of. For, with a possible dry autumn, there is mischief to follow
in 41 days duration of ? d 0. Of the WINTER, I do not think
we shall have much of that in 1894, with such a number of soli-
planetary positions, with Mars and Venus overlying for 23 and
41 days to intensify their storm action ; the last two months will
be more remarkable for extremes and vicissitudes of an extreme
character, with frequent changes, but no low temperature of any
note or duration. It will be a perilous period at sea.
To sum up; with such a favourable disposition of influences
for 1894, we may reasonably look for a very favourable spring,
with good promise for crops; a fine summer, with great heat in
parts of June and July, to mature them; and fine autumn
weather for their ingathering. I look for this consummation
from the 21-d 'i' and J' 8 ? of the year, to carry on a modified
continuance of the 21-8 W of 1893. But for this, it might, as
often before, be a year of reaction, when every important sub-
influence would be the source of downfall and disaster. Of course,
looking so far ahead, and considering the nature of the " belt "
condition set up by these conjunctive positions of the greater
planets in the zodiac, we might be placed in the belt of precipita-
tion, and get a year or season of opposite condition ; but, looking
at the nature and disposition of the seasons in the months of the
table, and the occurrence of the solar positions, the course of
weather I have indicated seems the most probable.
With this explanation, it will be seen how it is that "science,"
denying the influence of the planets, has ever failed in to get any-
thing like a " key " to the problem of the seasons, though backed
by all the resources and appliances of well-endowed "depart-
ments " and scientific observers. Among other hypotheses,
great stress has been laid upon the possible existence of recurring
cycles, principally of lunar action; but from Luke Howard to
Hugh Clements, all have failed to find or demonstrate any such
cycles or their recurrence. The problem is incapable of solution
ASTRONOMIC METEROLOGY.
by any such mode of action, whether of Sun, Moon, or planets.

Six months' observation will demonstrate the planets as the true
cause, not of cycles, but of conditions and disturbances, from
positions and combinations which are ever changing, and the
return of which in any such " cycle " are necessarily impossible,
even in the lapse of centuries. All these different changes, com-
binations, and displacements may be .studied in the tables given,
anJ may be verified by any one who will take the trouble to
observe, and " delineate " the resulting curves and features in the
usual diagrams. Observe daily in this way, place the symbols of
the table over the dates, you will not only have a practical record
of) ears and seasons, but also a practical "key " by which all the
extremes and changes may be fairly foreseen and studied twelve
months in advance.
FREDERIC PRATT.
The positions at the November lunation were by no means

ausp1c1ous. The mid-heaven was afflicted by the opposition of
Mercury and Neptune; the luminaries were in conjunction with
Uran us and void of good aspects; and Saturn was in conjunction
with Mars. In addition to the other events we have mentioned, there
was a great renewal of activity among the anarchists in Spain and
France, Saturn in the above conjunction ruling the twelfth house.
On 7th, 14th, and 15th November there were anarchist outrages at
Barcelona and Marseilles; and during the month infernal machines
were sent to the German Emperor and to Count Caprivi, the
chancellor.
Our predictions at the November lunation, page 93, have been very
closely fulfilled. We foresaw "sad accidents on the high seas," and
this was fulfilled when the storm raged violently from the 18th to
the 20th November, doing an immense deal of damage on our coasts,
and causing many shipwrecks and the loss of some hundreds of lives.
The aspects in force were Mercury in opposition to Neptune, both
retrograde, and the Sun in opposition to Jupiter. We also predicted
that "some notable persons will pay the debt of nature," and this has
been followed by the deaths of Sir Robert Morier, British Ambassador
to Russia, who died on 16th November; Prince Alexander of Batten-
berg, formerly of Bulgaria, a clever soldier, who died when Mars was
entering Scorpio, on 17th November, at noon, at Gratz, Austria (born
5th April, 1857); and Sir Andrew Clark, the popular physician, who
died of paralysis at London, at 4.30 p.m., 6th November (Moon con-
junction Saturn and Mars), he was born 28th October, 1826.
contained.
SIR,-1 trust "Candid" and "Raphael" will please note that when
my figure was forwarded to the Astrologers'Magazine the facts had not
transpired. Since then, everything has turned out as predicted by
me, and the quesited is now in England (safe). Being on tour the
past few weeks will explain delay, as I only returned from the eastern
counties to the west of England a few days since, when I found the
Astrologers' Magazine unopened, so now supply an omission; yet, at
the same time, if my figure had been carefully analysed, I fail to see
why one could not read my condensed judgment more accurately, and
not trouble me to go over the ground again. I have great faith in
fixed siJ!ns, and guaranteed perfect safety to a person who was pre-
paring to fly from England some time since, who stood his trial, on
my word, and was acquitted, though his accomplice had six months'
hard labour. Now Sun is fixed in Aquarius, so I gave my verdict of
perfect safety in this case also (in fact, when not badly afflicted,
students may rely on it firmly). I gave this circumstance to the
Editor of the Astrologers'Magazine. As I dispense facts to save space,
I must answer both at one time.
( r) I believe the best authors are agreed that the plan~t the Moon
last separated from shows what has recently happened; therefore, as
Moon had recently separated from d Venus, and as both "Candid"
and" Raphael" agree that Moon signifies the querent, I stated boldly
that a female urged her to apply to me, which was admitted (giving
name). So "Candid" is faulty, not me, and "Raphael's" version is
shaky, not mine. I hope they will excuse me using their words.
Candid will see ) 1:,. ? .
(2) "Candid" well knows if Lilly was living he would use Aquarius,
and "Raphael" knows well Aquarius is a fixed sign, so finding Sun,
his significator, joined to Mercury, lord of the fourth, was quite
sufficient for me to give a definite answer as to safety, which proved
true, as he returned to England, and was unmolested.
(3) In replying to this question, I must ask my readers to look at
a figure inserted in October number Astrologers'Magazine, from" Lilly,"
and to the third query-" where he was." Lilly takes the sign to
signify the place he was in ; and, although Sagittary was south-east
in the figure, he says, "I find ? , his significator, leaving 1, a north-
east, and entering ~. a south sign, whereon I judged he was in the
south-east part of the country unto which he went." Now, I have
actually followed "Lilly" strictly, as Aquarius is a western sign, see
"Lilly," p. 65, and, if a western sign, why not America?
(4) As Mercury signifies young persons, and being in his seventh,
I judged quite correctly the brother or quesited sweetheart prompted
him to leave his employment, which was a fact, and no deviation
from Astrologic rules. Now, "Lilly" says, "Always take a planet
in a house as well as lord of a house." On p. 90, "Lilly," I find our
author gives "south-east." I will transcribe his exact words:-
" I intimated that he was resolving suddenly upon a journey south-
east: south, because the quarter of heaven wherein the lord of
ascendant is, is south ; east, because the sign where 0 is, is east
(this he confessed)." If" Lilly's" writings do not support me, then
my detractors require spectacles.
I may add, if ~ had not been in seventh, but in the fourth, his
father, I should have given the father as the prompter.
(5) I stated in my reply to " Candid " that he had a most tem-
pestuous voyage, as I judged he would have from the squares to
Herschel, and he being in Scorpio (as "Lilly" states, a bestial sign),
and Mars hurrying to opposition, is quite enough, without the squares
in figure. cf is placed in 'Y', it should be Taurus.
(6) Is admitted to be alright and sensible.
(7) Pronounced "shaky." Why so? when I am still judging
according to " Lilly," taking a planet in a house as well as the lord
thereof, so finding two planets in his sixth afflicted, I judged
accordingly.
The Editor of the Astrologers'Magazine had my figure many weeks
before it was inserted, so that my judgment was fulfilled before it was
published.
On a second reading of" Candid's" letter, I know ~ signifies the
artist, and "Candid'' must see Moon trine to Saturn. So as to make
it more plain, Venus, a female, prompts the querent to apply to me,
as both ~ and ) are in trine to my significator, though, by some
means, I did not give it, as I condense my judgment as much as
possible, my time being fully occupied.
Yours faithfully,
E. CASAEL.
SIR,-Permit a beginner to ask an elementary question or two.

( 1) If, in the horoscope, a planet is in its own house, and not
aspected by any other, what weight should we allow it in making out
the character ?
In the case before me, the planet is in the tenth house.
(2) If the ruler of the second house is in conjunction with the
significator, is it correct to infer prosperity?
Surely there is something omitted from III., on page 77, as if the
rule applies to the current year it will not to another, and the error
becomes serious if used for some time back.
I am, Sir, yours truly,
BEGINNER.
[Note by Ed.-( 1) A planet so posted is very strong, but the nature
of the planet must he considered. (2) It depends upon the strength
of the planets, for sometimes the same sign will be on the cusp of
both first and second houses, give an example. (3) See errata.]
SIR,-1 have been for a long time anxious to know what part of
England (or the world) I should direct my steps to be most successful
in business. I have been where I am now living over four years, and
have been most unfortunate with dishonest assistants, and unfortunate
generally. Now, I have applied to four, three of which I know are
well up in the science. Two say West of England, Devon, Watering
Places; the other two say N .E. of England, Lancashire, or Scotland
would be best for me. Besides the four I have applied to, I have just
read, in Lilly's Astrology, that the quarter wherein you find U. ~ ),
or EB,or most of them, direct your steps to that quarter. Now, I have
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. 143
) ~ 0 S' 2+ 0 all in the N.E. quarter, i.e., from the fourth house to
the ascendant, but then Lilly goes on to say if 2+or s, be lords of the
eighth or twelfth or sixth, avoid that quarter. I have ~ on the cusp
of sixth house, which is one of the houses of s, , so that I conclude,
according to Lilly, I am best, after all, away from the N.E. quarter.
Anyway, I shall be very pleased to be set at rest about this, to me,
vexed question.
Yours,
FOGGED.
BYRON'S HOROSCOPE.
SIR,-With reference to Byron's horoscope, will you allow me to
say that I think the words quoted were taken, not from my observa-
tions on his dl!ath figure, but from the note on page 214, Vol. III.
It is a pity we do not know the authority for the time adopted in
-the case of the Scorpio figure. An astrologer once remarked to me
that Byron's face, at its best, had too handsome and refined a look
for the sign Cancer. In Roden Noel's life of the poet, it is stated
that " Coleridge and Scott both agreed about the wonderful beauty of
his face; and Trelawny, who often swam with him, mentions that,
save for the defect in his foot, his body and limbs were of Apollonian
symmetry and fairness-the delicate shapeliness of his hands being
noticed by many, men as well as women." I find some difficulty in
admitting this to be the description of a Mars in Cancer man.
Trelawney reports that Byron gave his time of birth as "two in the
day," and everything depends upon how this expression is to be inter-
preted. If Byron spoke strictly, it, of course, ought to mean 2 p.m.,
which time gives us the Cancer figure with Mars rising. But it is
quite within the bounds of possibility that he may have spoken loosely
(for every astrologer meets with such cases), and have meant two in
the morning; moreover, in a larger sense, a "day" consists of twenty-
four hours, and then "two in the day" would mean the second hour
of the day, or 2 a.m., which gives us Scorpio rising, and Mars in trine
to the ascendant. I do not see how any astrologer can feel certain
that this latter view is incorrect.
The auburn tinge of his hair may be held to support the Cancer
figure with Mars rising, but it might also come from Scorpio with
Mars in trine to the ascendant; and his curly or wavy hair seems to
me much more characteristic of Scorpio than of Cancer. Both are
watery signs, and, therefore, his love of swimming will fit the one as
well as the other. The Scorpio figure gives him the Moon and
Uranus in the ninth house, and this is far more characteristic of his
restless habits, his voyages and travels, than is the Cancer figure,
which has a fixed sign on the cusp. His disposition seems to me to
agree better with Scorpio than with Cancer.
It is a pity we cannot obtain corroborative evidence, for the
present state of things leaves us uncertain. It might not be amiss to
publish a figure drawn for 2 a.m., so that all students could compare
the one with the other, for the Scorpio figure hitherto published is,
I believe, drawn for some few minutes earlier than 2 a.m. Possibly
the astrologer who drew up the figure may have started with this
time, and then proceeded to rectify it with a free hand.
LEO.
DEAR SIR,-lt seems that a writer in your contemporary was

unfortunate enough to say that your excellent Magazine was a kind of
unofficial organ of the Theosophists. This, of course, was not correct.
Thereupon, two Theosophists are down upon him with vengeance; and
not content with this they attack you and your Magazine in a most
asinine manner. One, however, a certain J. T. Campbell, F.T.S.,
displays an ignorance of astrology which is ludicrous. When treating
of Swedenborg's nativity you accidentally put ~ in the wrong sign,
whereby she was in * to ~ , and this clevercritic calls this aspect an
impossible and unheard of aspect! Well, I may tell him that ~ *
frequently occurs; in fact, scarcely a year passes but what it is formed
~
two or three times, and I may also add for his information that ~ Q ~
is not an impossible or unheard of aspect ; it occurs sometimes, but
not often. He speaks of the many keen mentalitiesthat exist. I should
like to see them. Of course, I shall discuss Theosophy, whenand where
I choose, whether in Theosophical journals or out of them, provided
I can get the right side of the editor . As for an " Indignant Theoso -
phist," the best thing he can do is to study his rules and hold his
peace! RAPHAEL, F.T.S.
November27th, 1893.
DEAR Sir,-1 find on checking the ascendants in my "Tables of
Houses " for south latitudes that they are not strictly correct. I must,
however, take the blame, as I ought to have checked them before I
published them. The greater part of the errors amount to a few
minutesonly. RAPHAEL.
DEARS1R,-I am very much surprised at some of the comments

made in the October number of the Future. It seems to me a puerile
thing for exponents of astrology to fling mud at one another when so
much depends upon united action for the future of the science. Cer-
tainly, I think it of great importance to exercise the utmost care in
preparing matter which is to have publication, and though repeated
mistakes are apt to discredit the astrologer rather than the science, the
public mind is not so discerning as to distinguish between a science
and its advocates. The custom is to regard the two under one general
head as a threadbare imposition, and the general verdict, " because
astrology is false, therefore all its advocates are frauds," should give
us pause to think how we may best and most speedily remove this
misconception. Assuredly, it will not come about by wearing one
another away on account of every lapsus calami, or the yet more serious
errors of judgment to which we are all liable at times.
I regret, therefore, that the astrological journals should occupy so
much valuable space in more or less personal recriminations.
In one thing, at least, I am glad to say the Astrologers' Mal(azine
is above -reproach, viz. : that it is all times willing to recognise and
acknowledge error wherever it occurs in its own pages. So far as I
am aware this has been done in all cases.
If to this policy (which is the only one consonant with intellectual
dignity and a sincere love of the truth), we could add the spirit of
tolerance in a larger measure than at present pervades astrological
writings, a few desirable things would spontaneously coexist : less
friction; more progress, greater unity, and double strength.
Yours sincerely, SEPHARIAL.
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degree of the sign Capricornus was on the cusp of the first
house, Aquarius intercepted, and the greater part of Pisce5
therein.
Description of person : Saturn in Scorpio modified by the
aspects of Herschel and Jupiter with the position of Neptune,
will pretty well describe him. Full middle stature, rather pale
complexion, black hair growing from the forehead towards the
crown of his head, dark sharp eyes, and rather spare person.
Disposition : Quick, excitable, prone to act on the spur of the
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146 MODERNASTROLOGERS.-"NEPTUNE."
abstemious. Great sincerity towards his friends, and truthful.
Students will observe the positions of Neptune, Herse:hel, and
Saturn, and the good aspect of the Sun to the latter, also Jupiter
in good aspect to both.
Mentality: Saturn, ruler of the cusp of the first house in the
mystic sign Scorpio, five planets in scientific signs and angular.
The Moon, Venus and Mercury parallel to each other, the Moon
just separated from the sextile of Mercury and the trine of
Neptune, and going in a conjunction of Venus. No wonder that
the study of Astrology, &c., engrossed so much of his spare time.
He is also a quick mathematician, note Mars par. dee. to
Mercury. Students will be able from these and other signs to
adduce many other good ·qualities of his mental endowments.
Religion and journeys: The mysterious in nature is strongly
shown. At present he is more sceptical than orthodox. The
Sun, Saturn, and Herschel in watery signs give a bias for a
seafaring life. Saturn denotes danger from water. His narrow
escapes from two such accidents were remarkable, and his three
silver medals prove both his courage and good conduct while in
that profession.*
Friends, &c.: "I selected_ Neptune, the banned and ostra-
cized 'rogue and vagabond' of Bow Street to assist me, &c.,"
so writes his friend, Mr. Edgar Lee, in his article on "Astrology
Fin de Siecle," in the Arena. This was after his escapade with
the authorities at Bow Street for practising Astrology (notice
21-8 W), when a noble friend (C. C. Massey, Esq.) espoused
his cause, but which, unfortunately, entailed great expense to
that gentleman. His intimacy with Mr. \V. T. Stead is well
known to astrologers.
Marriage : Very unfortunate in this speculation. Notice
Mercury in the seventh house in opposition to Neptune; also
the Moon and Venus in quartile to Herschel. I am not
concerned with the satellitium of planets in Gemini, further
than that it is noteworthy that Mars is in the fifth house. He
had but one child, who lived just to reach manhood, and then
died. This is a rather remarkable nativity, and will well repay
a careful study of it, as it very fully exemplifies the rules of
Predictive Astrology.
MERCURIUS.
*[NOTE BY EDITOR.-We may mention that the subject of this
month's horoscope entered the Royal Navy in early life,
and served with distinction in the Crimea, and at Canton
and the Taku Forts in China.]
3nfanttlemortaltt\?.
BY ALAN LEO.
SUMMARY.
I THINK a sufficient number of cases have now been given
in the foregoing pages ; and it is my . intention to try and
prove what directions caused the death of these children; also
to obtain sufficient evidence to enable us to predict the death,
before, and not after the decease, and, if this be accomplished,
the time given to this subject will have been well spent; but
before coming to any definite conclusion, we will take each case
separately and deal with it in as exhaustive a manner as possible.
I may say that at present I am not biassed in favour of any
system of astrology. I am as broad in my views of astrology as
I am upon everything else. What I want is what every earnest
student wants, viz., The Truth. We have too many methods,
the science has become a confusion in its systems; such subjects
as I purpose ventilating in these pages, viz., Infant Mortality,
Marriage, and Death, will, if thrashed out in an unbiassed
manner, go a long way towards proving the infallibility of the
science, as well as finally settling for us the ·vexed problem of
when events are likely or sure to happen.
The first case I gave was that of John H., which appears on
page 9 of this vol. "Sepharial" has thought well in a letter which
appears on page 95, to say that he considered any astrologer
would have predicted an early death in this case; just so, my
own opinion would have been with any astrologer that the child
would not live. But, when would it die ? This is the point I
raised at first-when will the child die, not will the child die ?
When I said it would be a bold astrologer who would predict
death from this, I was referring to Figure II. (secondary direc-
tions), for the Moon had passed the opposition of the Sun, even
the progre~sive Sun, by four degrees. Now, I ask "Sepharial,"
would he have predicted death when the Moon formed the exact
opposition to the Sun, or when? Now, let us suppose the father
of this boy to be an astrologer; he has noticed the heavy affliction
in his son's horoscope and felt sure in his own mind that he
could not hope to rear him ; how is he to know the date of the
child's death? he looks up all the text books (finds them differ)
and he sets to work getting out the various directions. Mr.
Pearce, in his "Text Book," tells him how to find Hylegiacal
places, but not a word to help him to find out when the death
will take place. " Raphael " tells him the Sun is the giver of
INFANTILE MORTALITY.
life, &c., but he do(;Snot satisfy him as to the time he may expect
the sad event. " Raphael" further states that the Moon rules
the first four years of life, but here the Moon has passed severe
affliction, and if the father had expected the greatest affliction
the Moon could have, to have killed the child, he would have
been disappointed.
Now I will not be too hard upon the Moon, and will give her
the full benefit of what I consider points to the probability of the
event whenever she deserves it, but I hardly think she did what
one would have expected in a case like this, for by direction she
has passed Q J , L her own place, and 8 ? , also 8 0 (and note
the 0 would be hyleg in this case). ~one of these acted on the
days they fell due, and before the> reaches o Wthe child breathes
his last.
Now any date could have been taken by the Moon's passing
to these afflictions because the primary were as evil as they could
be. But let us go carefully into this ca~e and arrive at a definite
conclusion as to the time the event should happen. If it is
possible to fix dates some system should fix them accurately.
Astrology is a true science we believe, and the search-light of
investigation will not weaken but strengthen it.
Now the greatest affliction in this figure appears to me to be
the affliction of Jupiter. 2+ gives some vitality to the human
system, and without vitality we are very poor weak mortals,
without hope, and a very slender hold on the cords of life.
Jupiter here is heavily afflicted (L 0 o )), the vitality consequently
must be very low. The Sun has left Saturn and taken a cold
draught to apply to Jupiter with ; the blood is poor and has no
warmth, the lungs are weak and the heart is chilled. Now, the
Moon has clearly failed to point out the day of death, but
supposing the father had watched the " process " as each sign
came up, he would have noted every affliction, and as the boy
lacked warmth and vitality he would have expected the greatest
evil from the cold planet Saturn, not the hot and fiery Mars; the
first aspect by the process system he would have found likely to
kill would be asc. o '?, and this is formed a year and four
months after birth, i.e., April, 1885, and if you will erect a map
for RJt13° 48' ascendini" you will find why the first affliction did
not kill. I would advise you to put up a map so that you will
understand more clearly. The lord of the processed ascendant
is Mercury, who is sextile Venus, trine Urdnus, and entirely free
from affliction, and in elevation ; the fourth and eighth houses
are free. The next affliction is the ascendant [;) '? and 0, then
o 2+, but here the figure shows the doctor has power to save.
Mercury in the seventh (lord of the eighth), in trine aspect with
Uranus, lord of the process fourth; but the next affliction (the
ascrndant opposition Saturn), is very significant, as the Figure III.
on page 9 shews, the body only waited until there was no hope
to save, >and 0 ruling eighth. Can you have anything plainer
to show the event, if so, and I have given any favour at all, I
shall be glad to acknowledge that the event was not predicted by
this simple process system ; and this is not all that the process
reveals, for as additional testimony, if you apply the process to
the radical Moon, she has processed to the cusp of eighth in exact
opposition to Mars ; but ( do not want to make these cases at
all complicated if I can help it. I want the student to simply
understand the methods of prediction, so that he may not bring
the science into disrepute by twisting and twirling every aspect
to fit his case, and I would offer this advice-Never make an
excuse for astrology failing which you may think does account
for an event, put all the blame upon your own judgment, anyone
can cast a figure and give a fair delineation, that is simple, but
to predict events with accuracy requires years of close and
patient study. Experience alone makes the astrologer, for by
experience he improves his judgment; our practice is fast
proving the planet Neptune to be closely related to the sign
Pisces, and those who believe Pisces to be the house of W have
here a very strong case in support of their theory, for the pro-
gressed ascendant (see Figure II.), is exact square to Neptune at
the time of death, and it will be interesting to watch those cases
where * is on cusp of eighth that will follow. Now I have
thought well to take the responsibility of a prediction, and if
students will turn to page 269, vol. I., the horoscope of the infant
daughter of the Duchess of Fife, born May, 1891, will be found,
and if this map be carefully studied, I think they will find that in
May of this year, the processed asc. conjunct. Saturn is formed,
which I think will result in the terminus vitre, the only saving
point that I can see being the transit of Jupiter over the radical
ascendant ; this may delay the event until the early part of June.
Should the death take place it will bear out our statement in the
delineation, that the child will not be reared.
(To be co11ti11ued.)
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PROFECTIONAL DIRECTIONS.
I F, own
for the purpose of illustration, I take an example from my
horoscope, and show the method of working, the
system will then be fully expounded, and similar tables can be
drawn up from other horoscopes for permanent use by any of my
fellow students. The 0 ) asc. and M.C. are directed to the
radical places of the planets ; while W ? lf. J ? and >;i are
directed to the radical 0 >asc. and M.C.
Let me take an instance · in the present year of life, i.e., from
the 29th to the 30th birthday.
By reference to Table III., the profectional sign occupied by
each of the signfficators on the 29th birthday, is seen opposite
that number in the column of years. By reference to Table II.,
I find the degrees and minutes held by the significators on the
20th of each month.
The positions on the 29th birthday are as follows :-
0 in Sl 29° 43'
)
win nx 21° 16'
!,j> 220 43' ? "
"
Ase. in ~ 240 32' lf.
"
* 15° 54'
'Y' 27" 31'
M.C. in 'Y' o0 24' J' $ 8° 26'
"
? lil $ 28° 40'
>;i in Sl 16° 10'
Taking the Sun first, I refer to the Table I., and along the
line of the sign Sl, I find the aspects which the Sun forms during
its passage through that sign. But as the Sun has reached
Sl 29° 43' it meets no aspects till it enters 11i, · on the 4th day
after the 29th birthday. Under the sign nx, the aspects which
the Sun meets are seen in their order, * M.C., L ? , L mid-
heaven, 8 >;i, o f#, l.l J', o asc., * lf. and 8 to its own place
on the 30th birthday. The degrees and minutes in which these
aspects fall may be seen in the extreme left and right columns .
Table II. will at a glance inform me in which month the Sun
reaches these degrees ; and a similar process being followed in
the case of all the other significators, the aspects can be set
down in their order.
If I wish to extract the profectional directions for any parti-
cular month, say December, 1893, following the 29th birthday,
I turn to Table III. and note the profectional signs occupied by
significators on the 29th birthday; then turning to Table II., I
find all have changed signs except the M.C. and Mars, and I
therefore add one sign in every case except M.C. and Mars.
152 THE DEGREES OF THE ZODIAC SYMBOLISED •
.The longitudes for the 1st of December are obtained by adding

50' to the longitudes given in Table II. for November 20th. I
thus obtain :-
0 ) Ase. M.C. W ? ~ J ~ ~
Tilt - II 'Y' f 'Y' Sl~ TIJt
2D
20°33' 13°33' 15°22' 21°14' 12°6' 6°44' 18°21' 29°16' 19°30' 7°0'
Now, turning to Table I., I note the aspects falling in these
signs and degrees, thus :-0 o W; >L 0, 6 ? ; Ase. 6 ? , o ~ ;
*
.M.C. W, e:, >; I;, l.l >; J e:, 0, o M.C.; and these aspects can
be further arranged under their exact dates if desirable.
It will be noticed that the 0 >asc. and M.C. are taken as the
significators, the planets' aspects among themselves being un-
noticed.
I have thought it well to treat this subject somewhat fully,
and in as systematic a manner as possible, because I have
observed that of late it has been brought forward in a revised
and, to my mind, an improved form to that of Argol Andrea.
The method of adding 1° to the meridian for every year of life,
and 21° per month to the ascendant obtained therefrom, is in
perfect harmony with the teaching of Ptolemy in his Tetrabiblos
Lib. IV., cap. IO, where he says that the directions . to the M.C.
are measured by the "culminating times," i.e., at the rate of 1°
per year, and the ascendant is directed by oblique ascension, or,
as he says, "by the ascensional times belonging to the climate
(latitude)." But he further says that the annual periods are
calculated at the rate of a sign per year, or 2f per month.
I must confess, however, that the system, at its best, is but
supplementary and, I think, subsidiary to the methods of
direction already in use; and I have not yet seen a case of a
profectional direction affording independent witness to an event.
SEPHARIAL.
ttbe ll)egreesof tbe ZobtacS~mboltseb.
GEMINI (continued.)
II 15°-A woman holding a bundle of faggots, her hair loose,
and disordered by the wind. She wanders in search of
something.
THE DEGREES OF THE ZODIAC SYMBOLISED. 153
It indicates a person of a versatile character, and

eccentric nature. One who is disposed to undertake more
things than he is able to complete, and who will either be
brilliant on account of wide learning, or impotent through
overmuch vexation and trouble. It is a degree of confusion.
n r6°.-A man sitting upon his heels, and breaking stones with
a hammer.
It indicates a person of very few resources and of small
intellectual powers ; who, from lack of ability or through
misfortune, will be able to bring but little to fruition. One
who may labour much to little profit. It is a degree of
unfruitfulness.
,, 17°.-A broken pitcher lying upon the ground with spilled
fluid around it.
It denotes one who will come to some untimely end
through the hands of another. It shows the nature to be
unpractical and the pursuits of the native to be mostly vain
and of no lasting benefit. It shows loss of powers during
lifetime, and perhaps loss of faculties. It is a degree of
impotence.
,, r8°.-A flying arrow.
It indicates a person of lofty aspirations, keen mental
powers, penetration and executive ability. One who will
cut out his own line in life and excite attention, but who
may, by his destiny, fail in achieving the result aimed at.
It is a degree of exec11tion.
,, 19°.-A woman stands in an attitude of dejection and covers
her otherwise naked breast with the hair of her head.
It indicates one who will have some great sorrow in life,
and will be deserted by friends and left to his own resources.
To a woman it speaks the worst of ills. Blighted hopes,
betrayed confidence, sudden bereavement and void ambitions
are the dire fruits of this black line in the scroll of life. This
degree is perilous.
,, 20° .-Two men, well clad, are standing together, the one
holding a white horse by the bridle.
It points out a person who has much aptitude in spiritual
things, a tendency to believe much in dreams and visions,
.and to pursue strange studies. It gives the friendship of
notable persons and a taste for science among other things ;
H 2
154 THE DEGREES OF THE ZODIAC SYMBOLISED.
but at the same time it may lead the native into dangerous
paths. If influence falls to the hand of this man it may work
him harm. It is a degree of disproportion.
n 21°.-A youth is seen throwing coins into a cup as if in play.
It denotes a person of eccentric and, to a certain extent,
unsociable habits, who will probably lose great opportunities
by his carelessness and peculiar tastes while amusing himself
after his own manner; he will be reckless of how ·others may
be working, and will probably lead a dependent life. It is a
degree of i'ndifference.
,, 22°.-A young woman lying beneath a tree, throwing food to
the birds which gather around her.
It indicates a person of gentle, winning disposition, kind
heart, and generous ardent nature. One who will be happy
and make others so. Domestic peace and prosperity. Rustic
habi~s, love of the artistic and beautiful in nature, fondness
of poetry, music and singing. Some disposition to follow
the fine arts. A lover of peace and concord. It i~ a degree
of geni'ality or fellowfeeling.
,, 23°.-An old oak, without leaf or bark,splintered by the storms
through which it has passed, stands alone upon a desolate
moorland.
It denotes one who through his own actions, or the force
of circumstances, will be deserted by kith and kin, and will
pass through many trials. The storms of life will sear his
heart and blight his nature ere the young world of his dreams
can grow up around him to shelter and protect his years of
falling leaf. It is a degree of abandonment.
,, 24° .-Several sparrows are collected together, chattering and
pluming themselves in the dust.
It indicates a person of social and jovial nature, somewhat
given to luxury and convivial pursuits, but very unselfish,
happy in the company of others, attractive, forming many
friendships. Ever ready to express his honest nature by
word of mouth, or in spontaneous action. Gifted in the art
of persuasion, sympathetic. It is a degree of friendship.
,, 25°.-An old book lying open upon a table, and beside it a
burning lamp.
It signifies a person of some exceptional mental powers,
whose mind will be well stored with ancient learning. One
THE DEGREES OF THE ZODIAC SYMBOLISED. 155
of a studious and retiring nature, whose greatest happiness
and whole wealth will be in the conquests of the mind. He
will achieve so:nething of importance to the world by dint
of close and patient study. It is a degree of cultivation.
n 26°.-A market place, in which several young men are in
dispute, and asserting their respective opinions by the free use
of cudgels.
It signifies a person of a stubborn, wilful nature, not
easily persuaded of the merits or rights of others, litigious
and quarrelsome, of few sympathies, jealous and revengeful.
It denotes a life of many dangers and perhaps death by the
hand of a man. It is a degree of contest.
,, 27.,.-A young man of dishevelled appearance sitting upon
a barren rock by the sea, weeping.
It denotes a person of melancholy disposition, over whom
the circumstances of life will have much influence, even to
the extent of depriving him of all happiness. To a certain
extent the nature is dependent and confiding, at all times
sympathetic, but ill fitted to the battle of life. It denotes
also some great heart-trouble, bereavement or disappointment
in love, death of husband or wife as the case may be. It is
a degree of melancholy.
28°.-A large and well-cultivated tract of land.
It signifies a person of broad, open and genial tempera-
ment of mind, a healthy body, keen appreciation of nature's
beauties ; love of rustic pursuits ; successful life, large family
and many friends. This individual will live more in the
physical and emotional aspects of his nature than in the
mental or spiritual ; yet the reflection of these in the life of
the native will be apparent and will work for good in him.
It is a degree of fruitfulness.
,, 29°.-A gloomy sky filled with scudding clouds. A flight of
black birds are struggling against the wind.
It denotes a person of pessimistic nature; one who will
abandon his many projects for want of hope and perseverance.
The mind is filled with an endless succession of thoughts and
schemes, but always in the black mantle of doubt and
misgiving. The nature is weak, and easily thrown off the
track; prolix, versatile, but lacking, as such natures mostly
are, of continuity. This individual will have many dream:;
156 THE GREAT PLAGUE,
and yet none will be fulfilled. Hence he will have no

confidence either in himself or his designs. It is a degree of
doubt and change.
II 30°.-A wolf following a sheep along a secluded pathway.
It signifies a crafty nature, capable of intrique and decep-
tion ; one who will form associations with a design of ultimate
conquest. A seductive nature, living at the risk of others'
happiness. A man of considerable powers of persuasion, but
not to be trusted. It is a degree of deception.
ttbe GreatPlague.
I T may be interesting to the readers of the Astrologers' Magazine

to review the significations of the Great Plague of London
in the year 1665. For this purpose I subtend the positions of
the planets, etc., at the Vernal Equinox, Summer Solstice, and
autumnal Equinox calculated for the meridian of London.
VERNAL EQUINOX.
M.C. ~ 50
Ase . t 50 48'
'? ~ go 43' ~ in the 1st house.
2f.
~
- 130 9'
1° 46'
29"
22" "
2nd
3rd
"
cJ * 28° 49' 57" " 3rd
"
0 *
'Y' 0 0 "
o on the cusp of "4th house .
) ~ 50 9' 13" in the 5th house.
? ~ 12° 38' 16" 5th
" "
SUMMER SOLSTICE,
M.C. :::: 140 29'

Ase. II 20° 18'
2f.
cJ
-II
22°
70
2' ~ in the 10th house.
37' 16" 12th
~ II 270 4' 0~ "" 1st "
"
0 Qo 0 0 0 1st
? Qo 16° 46' 0 " 2nd "
) . ~ 130 o' 4" " 5th "
)? Vj' 50 "
36' 0 ~ " 8th "
"
THE GREAT PLAGUE. 157
AUTUMNAL EQUINOX.
M.C. ~ 30 38'
Ase . <r 7° 55'
'? ~ 30 s' 18" in the 10th house .
2+
)
- 120 53'
120 53'
Jlo
II"
6"
uth
" 12th "
6 *
Sl 30 49' 26" "
"
5th "
"
J' Sl 14° 29' 19"
"
5th
0 6 0 0 0 6th "
~ 6 26° 24' 31" " 7th "
" "
In the Vernal figure, the rulers of the eighth and sixth houses
are conjoined in Taurus in the fifth and in square aspect to
Jupiter, the ruler of the figure. The Sun, close to the angle of
the fourth house, is conjoined to Mars, which brings its influence
from the malarial sign *, while at the same time the Sun applies
to the square of '? in the first house, Saturn being retrograde.
Jupiter, the lord of the year is afflicted by L if, L 0, o > ? . As
a significator ·of " the people " therefore it is not by any means
good.
In the Summer figure, Venus the ruler of the sixth is square to
the moon (again in the fifth house). The ruler of the figure ~ is
Ii,. and separating from the Sun in the ascendant. Saturn, ruler
of the eighth, is exactly on the cusp of that house, the most
powerful planet in the figure, retrograde and going to an opposi -
tion of the Sun, while at the time of the solstice it throws a semi -
square to Jupiter !lo in the M.C.
In the Autumnal figure, Saturn is exactly in the meridian
degree, a_nd more closely aspect the Sun than in the preceding
figures. Mars, lord of the first and eighth, is in the fifth, conjoined
to Venus and opposed to Jupiter !lo in .;cc. The Moon in in *
the twelfth has the I.! aspect of Mercury, part ruler of the sixth.
The Sun, ruler of the sixth, is in the sixth, separating from a !;J
of 2+ and applying to the o of '?. In Pierce's "History and
Biography," the following account is given:-
" In , the months of May, June and July, the plague had
continued with great severity, but in August and September it
quickened its dreadful activity, sweeping away 8,000 in one week.
. . . In some houses carcases lay waiting for burial, and in others,
persons were seen doubled up in their last agonies. . . . Infants
passed at once from the womb to the grave. The yet healthy
child hung upon the putrid breast of a dead mother, and the
NOTES ON HINDU ASTROLOGY.
nuptial bed was changed into a sepulchre. Some of the infected

ran about staggering like drunken men, and fell and expired in
the streets, while others calmly laid themselves down 1 never to
rise but at the call of the last trumpet. At length, in the middle
of September, more than 12,000 perished in one week; in one
night 4,000 died, and, in the whole, 100,000 perished· of this
plague. The hearses were but dead-carts, which continually
traversed the streets, while the appalling cry, 'Bring out your
dead,' thrilled through every soul. Then it was that parents,
husbands, wives and children saw all those that were dear to
them thrown with a pitchfork into a cart like the offal of a
slaughter-house, to be conveyed without the walls, and flung into
one promiscuous heap, without the rites of sepulture, without a
coffin, and without a shroud! Some graves were dug so large as
to hold a thousand bodies each, and into these huge holes the
living, wrapt in blankets and rags, threw themselves among the
dead in their agonies and delirium. They were often found in this
state, hugging the flesh of their kindred that had not quite
perished. People, in the intolerable torment of their swellings,
ran wild and mad, laying violent hands upon themselves, and even
mothers, in their lunacy, murdered their own children."-De/oe. ·
This plague I believe to have a major cycle of 1,235 years,
with a sub-cycle of 128·4 years, and another of 614 years.
SEPHARIAL.
1Roteson 1binbuBstrolog\?.
From the " Brihat Jataka," and other works.
11.-DIVISIONS OF THE ZODIAC.
(r.) The Zodiac is divided into twelve signs (Rashi), just as

in the Sayan Zodiac:-
Mesha 'Y' Simha st Dhanus t
Vrishaba ~ Kanya n,1t Makara ~
Mithuna n ·Tula ~ Kumbha :::
Kataka ezo V rischika ltl Mina ,E
NOTES ON HINDU ASTROLOGY. 159
(2.) Each sign is divided into two equal parts of 15°, called
a Hora. In the odd signs of the zodiac, the first Hora is that of
the Sun, and the second that of the Moon. This is reversed m
the even signs :-
Signs. First Hora. Second Hora.
Odd 'Y' n 5l, ::!:!: t :::: 0 >
Even 8 $ llJt lll \,j> * ) 0
The first, or solar Horas, of odd signs are said to be the best
places for malifics, and when thus situated they conduce to fame,
wealth, and power. The first, or lunar Horas of even signs, are
the best places for benefics, and when thus posited they conduce
to gentleness, popularity, and intelligence. The further the
planets are removed from these positions the less they give of
the effects mentioned. For instance, if malifics are in lunar
Horas of odd signs, or solar Horas of even signs, the effect
mentioned is diminished, while if they are in lunar Horas of even
signs the effect will fail altogether.
(3.) A Drekkana is the same as our Decanate or Face, the
third part of a sign. The lord of any sign is also the lord of
the first decanate of that sign. The lord of the second decanate
is the planet that rules the next sign of the same triplicity
(which will be the fifth sign from the one in question). The lord
of the third decanate is the planet that rules the third sign of
the same triplicity (which will be the ninth sign from the one in
question).
A planet is well placed if in its own decanate or that of some
congenial planet, or if it is in mutual reception by decanate with
some other planet.
A distinct meaning is given to each of the thirty-six Decanates,
but there is not space to give them now.
TABLE OF DECANATES.
rst 2nd
d' 0
? ~
n ~ ?
) d'
-
*
160 NOTES ON HINDU ASTROLOGY.
This method of arranging decanates seems sound and reason-

able, and I advise students to investigate it.
An aphorism says that the influence of the Moon is according
to the decanate in which she is placed. · A benefic decanate
conduces to beauty and virtue. If in a bird decanate (2nd of 'Y',
2nd of II, 1st of S\,, 2nd of ~ ), it tends to wandering habits.
"Alan Leo's" horoscope, with the moon in the second decanate
of Aries, bears out this aphorism, as he is frequently travelling.
(4.) A N avamsa is the ninth part of a sign. If a sign be
divided into nine equal parts, each will consist of 3° 20'. There
are, of course, 108 Navamsas in the whole zodiac. The first
Navamsa of Aries is called Aries Navamsa, and is ruled by Mars;
the second Navamsa of Aries is Taurus Navamsa, and is ruled
by Venus ; and so on in order all through the zodiac.
These Navamsas seem to be regarded as of great importance,
judging from the frequent references to them in the various
aphorisms.
TABLE OF NAVAMSAS.
1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th
3!0 620
s 10° IJ!o 1620
lf 20° 23-}0 26; 0 300
'Y' S\, t 'Y' 8 II $ S\, 1lJ1. :!l,
»t. t
8 llJl 1,j> Vj• - * 'Y' 8 S\,
-
II $ 1lJ1.
II
- -
_.._ -
»t. *
~
$
»t.
S\,
l'
IIJ1.
1,j>
~ »t. *t 'Y'
Vj' -
8 n
$
The first Navamsa of the zodiac extends from o0 'Y' to
*
3° 20' 'Y' ; the second from 3° 20' 'Y' to 6~ 40' 'Y' ; the third from
6° 40' to 10° 'Y' ; and so on through all the signs.
It will be seen from this table that signs of the same triplicity
have the same Navamsas. For instance, Aries, Leo, and Sagit-
tarius are the signs forming the fiery triplicity, and they all have
Aries for their first Navamsa, with Mars as its lord; Taurus for
their second Navamsa, with Venus as its ruler; Gemini for their
third Navamsa, with Mercury as its lord, and so on. This table
will enable the student to see the exact Navamsa any planet is
in at a glance.
If a planet is 'in its own Navamsa and its own sign both at
once, it acquires extra strength. For instance, if Mars were at
2° 'Y' 30' in a horoscope, it would be in its own sign, its own
decanate, and its own Navamsa, and would be stronger than
usual on that account.
(To be continued.)
'Aataanbttermtnuslllttre.
Lady-Born July 31st., 18sg,

about 2.37 a.m.
lfl.
T HIS horoscope of a lady, who died under peculiar circum-

stances shortly after her confinement, has been sent us by
one who was engaged in attending on the case. The place of
birth was 51° 8' N., and 2° 59' W. The watery sign Cancer
rises with the two benefics Jupiter and Venus therein. Her
personal appearance and character are described thus : " She
was about 5 feet 4 inches in height, rather stout, features plump,
skin white, pink in cheeks sometimes, large dimple in the chin.
In disposition she resembled the oft-shifting Luna, liking
pleasure and dancing ( ~ in first). She was exceedingly good-
natured, and made a great many friends ( ~ rules eleventh),
though most of them she did not keep very long. She was
always falling out with near relatives and neighbours, and
annoyed by their speeches ( ~ in third o W,>in third, midway
between ? and ~ ). She was fearfully extravagant; try how she
would she could not practice economy ( t and l;, afflicting 0 in
second, 0 ruling second). She was also very shifty, unreliable,
and untruthful, and could never keep her word. In health she
was not very strong ( $ is a weak sign) ; she suffered much in
the bowels ( ~ in 11Jto W), with pains under the heart (malefics in
Sl) and in the head ( ~ afflicted)."
She was married on August 5th, 1882, at the age of 23 years
5 days. By the post-natal direction, Saturn (lord of seventh),
Venus, and Mars, were then in conjunction near the place of the
162 NATA AND TERMINUS VITA':.
radical Moon; Jupiter was exactly on the cusp of the ascendant,

and the progressed Moon was in sextile to the above-mentioned
conjunction of Saturn, Mars, and Venus. By the method of
adding one degree to the M.C. for each year of life, 9 11 'Y' was
culminating, and in trine to the 0. By the "process," a sign
for a year added to the ascendant, the latter was at 17° II in
conjunction with the progressed Moon, and in sextile to the
progressed Saturn, Mars, and Venus. By transit, on the day of
her marriage, Mars and Venus were in cS at 21° and 23° llJt, and
Uranus was close by at 16° nJt, these being, therefore, near the
square of the "process" ascendant. The Sun was at 13° S\, near
the radical Saturn (ruler of the seventh, the house of marriage).
The Moon was at 4° l:S, in square to Mercury, on the place of the
radical Mars; and Saturn was at 25° l:S, in square to the radical
Moon; while Jupiter was at 2311II, close to the cusp of the
ascendant by "process." We need not carry the analysis any
furtper, suffice it to say that while these positions are thoroughly
characteristic of marriage, they include some very threatening
elements indeed. Other syste~s of direction would, no doubt,
yield similar results. In the horoscope, we notice Venus rising,
attended by Jupiter, a very fortunate position; but the Sun,
supposed to signify the husband, is besieged by Mars and Saturn.
Saturn rules the seventh, the house of marriage, and the Sun
applies to him, and the husband is described thus: "Rather tall,
slight, dark blue eyes, hair nearly black, quiet and good-tempered,
a man of few words, with two crazes-music and flowers; by
trade a printer." This does not correspond in every respect
to the usual description of Saturn in Leo, there is certainly some
of the influence of Venus rising mixed with it.
Her first child, a boy, was born about fourteen months after
marriage; the second, also a boy, on August 28th, 1893, at 6.20
a.m., at the mother's birthplace. Our correspondent writes:-
" Her horoscope was drawn some years ago by a man passing
through the town. As Jupiter and Venus, both fruitful planets,
were in a fruitful sign, it was thought she would have many
children, and the second a girl, female sign on · the seventh
house." In our opinion Scorpio has more to do with this fifth
house than Libra; and the ruler, Mars, is in the same sign with
the Sun and Saturn, a barren sign ; and the Moon, which has
much to do with childbirth, is close by. The lord of the fifth
and the Moon are both in a male sign.
NATA AND TERMINUS VIT£.
Our correspondent continues :-" As the Sun was in his own

sign, and the ascendant fortified, it was thought her life would
be long, and as the Sun and Saturn were in the same sign, that
she would be a widow." As a matter of fact she died at the age
of 34 years, 1 month, and her husband is still living. Her death
took place in this way ; she was confined of a male child at the
time mentioned above, and was doing very well. In the absence
of the nurse-who was giving her a milk diet-she asked for
meat and vegetables, which were supplied her, and she eat
heartily of them. During the night diarrhrea set in. The next
day, in the nurse's absence, the same thing was repeated,
and inflammation was the result . "All night she raved in
delirium, and the milk flew over her." The inflammation could
not be subdued, and she died on September 3rd, 1893, at about
8-55 p.m. (at her birthplace). "She remained in a state of coma
for about three hours before death. At the last breath the blood
gushed from the nostrils."
In the birth figure we have Mercury in Virgo, governing the
bowels, in square to Uranus. By adding one degree to the mid-
heaven, we have M.C., o? R. By the "process" (one sign
to the ascendant for a year), we have ascendant o 1?P., and
Taurus was the progressed ascendant at death, Virgo being the
fifth from the progressed ascendant, and therefore governing
children. Its ruler was afflicted at birth, and ? ruling Taurus
was afflicted by progression. The Sun, by secondary pro-
gression, is in Virgo in opposition to Uran us ; while the
progressed Moon is in Sagittarius (the eighth sign from the
progressed ascendant), o ? P. o ~ P., the two latter being in
Virgo by progression.
How is it the birth figure does not shew a more severe
affliction of Virgo-the sign governing the bowels-than is the
case? It is true that Mercury, strong in Virgo, has the square
of Uranus at birth, and that Virgo is heavily afflicted by pro-
gression. But, in the first place, the cause of death should be
clearly shewn in the birth figure, quite apart from the positions
the planets may assume by progression ; and, in the second
place, one would think that death would come about by means
of the sign and house most heavily afflicted at birth. In this
case Leo is, beyond doubt, more heavily afflicted than any other
sign, and yet she did not die of an affection of the heart-
governed by Leo-or of the throat-signified by the second
NATA AND TERMINUS VITA,.
house. According to Hindu astrology, the sign Cancer governs .

the heart, and Leo the stomach ; and although we do not agree
with this rule, we think it only right to mention it in such a case
as this. The truth seems to be thus. Leo is the fifth celestial
house of the zodiac, and corresponds to the fifth house of _t_he
mundane figure. This woman died through over-indulgence in a
forbidden luxury, that of eating solid food. "Pleasure," signified .
by the fifth house, and therefore by Leo, caused her death.
Moreover, Mars, the ruler of the natal fifth, was in this sign Leo,
in evil association with the Sun, ruling Leo, Saturn, ruling the
seventh house, and the Moon, ruling the ascendant . Then
again, Leo is on the second house, corresponding to Taurus, the
second celestial house in the zodiac. Taurus and the second
house both give determination, obstinacy, and self-:will, which
she displayed in breaking the rules laid down by her medical
attendants.
Her child was born with Mars rising in Virgo, in opposition
to the Moon. Her parents both survived her, but she had not
spoken to them for some years.
This is her death figure. Notice that the progressed ascen-

dant of birth (by the "process," one sign for a year added to the
ascendant), is exactly rising at death. Leo, the afflicted sign at
birthl is here on the cu~ of the fifth, ruling child-birth. Virgo,
governing the bowels, has the Sun and Mars in conjunction, and
in square to Neptutie and the Moon. The ruler of the ascendant,
Venus, is in conjunction with Saturn.
munbaneBstrolog~.
NEw MooN.
9·45 p.m.
February 5th, 1894,
London.
T ·OD HE above are the positions at the moment of New Moon

the 5th instant ; the conjoined luminaries in the fifth
_house in squar~ aspect to Uranus in the second foreshadows
serious commercial and financial troubles. There will be some
heavy failures, and some notable defaulter on the Stock Exchange.
Mercury in the· fifth is an argument that troubles at schools or .
places of amusement will occur, for Uranus is in square aspect
with the " active " planet. Mars in the third will produce
accidents on railways, and cases of fraud in postal circles will
. be brought to light. Saturn . is angular in the sign of his exal-
tatio.n; but retrograde, hence, although there will be much
excitement amongst the ranks of the working classes, and great
dissatisfaction, extreme measures will not be resorted to ; this
position. is not favourable for the health ·or the community at
large, and the lord of the sixth in the eighth in square to the
luminaries will raise the death rate, and royalty !Ilay not escape .
New York will have a trying month ; fires or explosions at public
places are likely, and their Foreign Offic.ewill have a busy time,
and some stormy scenes in the chamber are certain . •
St. Petersburg will not be quiet during the ,month. Socialists
and anarchists will, it is to be feared, do permanent damage.
'.letters to tbe £bttor.
please enclose a stamped addressed envelope .
contained.
StR,-Astro-Meteorology is an interesting subject, but there are

two distinct questions to consider-1st: Do the planets influence the
weather ? and, 2nd : If they do, how can we explain it ? I shall be
glad to see Mr. Pratt's predictions of the weather for 1894, to test the
facts, but his explanations are not satisfactory. He totally mistakes
the case when he supposes that the condensation of vapour produces
a vacuum which the air rushes to fill up . This implies there are
large spaces filled with vapour and without air. I will not dwell on
the absurd statement that heat can be condensed into electricity, but
will proceed to a more fundamental error.
Mr. Pratt greatly over-estimates the attractive power of the
planets on the air, and he misconceives the nature of it, supposing
that gravitation becomes stronger by being resisted. If he had calcu-
lated the actual magnitude of the force, he would have found that the
total attraction of the planets on the air is millions of times less than
that of th!! Earth. Even if the Sun and Moon were in such positions
as to help the planets, the Earth's attraction would enormously exceed
their combined force.
The force of gravitation does not increase in power by the lapse
of time, as Mr. Pratt supposes . A stone will drop from my hand with
the same velocity whether I had held it for a moment or a month
suspended in the air.
I am, Sir, yours truly, CANTAB.
DEAR StR,-1 have been pleased with your new teachings with
regard to infantile mortality. It is a long time now since my faith
was destroyed in Mundane Directions. Twenty years ago I waded
through all the mathematical formulre, and, to reduce the labour,
I went in for planespheric projection, but with no better result as
regards arriving at a satisfactory basis. The secondary directions,
ingresses, and transits being the only really consistent anchorage
I could find. There is no doubt that in the progress of the planets
after birth (allowing a day for a year, etc.), there is a movement, or
continuity of influence, that is synchronal, to a great extent, with the
life experiences of the native. Yet all students must be aware of the
gaps that occur, that is, when no directions are in operation, yet
events do occur, clearly proving that some other phases or modes of
progression are in operation. On one occasion I conceived the idea
that the angles, viz., mid-heaven and asc., might progress at the
same rate as the Moon (by secondary motion), or, in other words,
I added the ) motion say as many signs and degrees as she had
progressed to at the time of an event to the sign and degree on the
mid-heaven, and this gave the point to where I considered the mid-
heaven had progressed to, and, in like manner, by adding the same
amount of the Moon's secondary motion to the ascendant, I got its
position of progress at the time the event occurred; and in this way,
I got some very striking results. I mention this· in order to draw
students' attention to the idea. It occurred to me on October 29th,
1892, at 1.25 a.m. Since a thought has its birth and life, it may
interest some to see the figure of its conception. My time has been
too much taken up to go into the matter more fully, and I hesitate in
coming to any definite conclusions unless I have the fullest evidence
that it is reliable ; for there is one fact that becomes all of us to con-
sider, and that is, when we set into motion a number of bodies, angles,
or points, or what not (or assume they have that motion), and cause
them to pass over and aspect other bodies moving at variable and
different rates, it is quite certain, on comparing their motions and
positions with occurring events, that we shall find many things
apparently accounted for that are nothing more than mere mechanical
coincidences. These are the chaff to be sifted from the wheat. And
it is only by repeated observation over hundreds of cases that this can
be done. If we only have systems enough, we can account for any-
thing; but accounting for an event and prophesying one are entirely
different things. In the former, astrology is generally satisfactory,
but, in the latter, it makes many miserable failures. It is the duty of
all of us to help to remove them, needing more observation and
expression of experiences; not forgetting how, in the case of the
angles, errors in the time of birth are disastrous, and for test cases,
none hut reliable data should be used. Out of the number I posses<;
I have selected three, because they are reliable, as a test of Alan Leo's
"process" method. The first is a boy, A. S. He was a fine, healthy
child, of considerable beauty, with a grace and dignified movement
rarely seen. 22 Sl 52 of Leo rises with the Moon in sextile with the
Ase. and Venus in trine. Saturn is in Taurus in the fourth, in square
with the ascending degree. From his birth to his death there was no
sickness, except taking a cold that terminated · with croup in three
days. He was born January 26, 1867, at 6.15 p.m., lat. 52.32, long.
2° 6' west (difference of time 8' 32" off Greenwich). He died March 5,
1870, age 3 years 4-3 days. By this time his ascendant had, by
"process," arrived just past the conjunction of Saturn. Had the
birth occurred 15 minutes earlier, the conjunction would be exact.
The secondary directions are 3 p.m., while the Sun is near a parallel
with Jupiter. The next case is that of J. E. S., born March 4-, 1865,
at 5 a.m., same locality as former case. He died in April, 1866, aged
13 months. This child was very delicate, and a fearful sufferer from
extreme constipation, resulting in a navel rupture. Capricorn rises
with Aquarius intercepted, Saturn, lord of Ase., is in the eighth in
opposition to Venus, both in square with the Ase. The sun is in
Pisces square Moon, Mars, and sesquiquadrate with Saturn, while
the Moon is in conjunction with Mars. In this case the " process
method" does not account for the time of death, but the secondary
directions do. The Moon haviBg arrived at the conjunction of Her-
schel and the Sun to a close completion of the sesquiquadrate of
Saturn. The next case is that of Mrs. T .'s child, born March 31, at
168 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR,
2.15 a.m. (same locality as preceding cases). 10° Capricorn rises

Saturn in the Ase., in opposition to Jupiter and Herschel, also in
sextile to Venus and square to the Sun. He lived 3 months and
8 days. By this time the ascendant had processed to 19 degrees of
Capricorn, near to conjunction of Saturn, square of Mars, and oppo-
sition of Jupiter. He died with consumption of the bowels; was
taken ill on the last day of June, and continued to get worse, dying
July 8. Doubtless, other stuc1ents will apply this method; and it will
be interesting to note the results, which, so far, are very assuring.
In reference to the " Prognostications, based upon the ruling
sign "-I have six horoscopes in front of me, all with Leo on the
ascendant, and in five of them the father died while the natives were
very young. I should like to know how far this is borne out by the
observations of other students.
With best wishes,
I remain, yours faithfully,
ICON.
DEARS1R1-What do the readers of the Astrologers'Magazinethink of

this horoscope? Male child, born 5th April, 1869, 8 p.m., Milwaukee,
U.S.A. This date is furnished by the mother. The case was one
which has from time to time excited a vast amount of interest amongst
scientific men, and I doubt if the case was ever paralleled. The
pre-natal epoch would be especially interesting in this case.
Yours sincerely,.
F.G.G.
Snewereto (torreeponbente.
J.W.-We cannot deviate from our rules which you will find on page
2 of cover.
W .P .-" Greta." We discourage betting by astrology and do not
care to give any rules on the subject. Horary questions must be
definite. You cannot expect a decided or satisfactory result ; if, for
example, you want to buy a piece of land out of six different plots,
select the one you think best and try the figure for that.
T.B.D.-If you can give us date, &c., of birth, we could do as you
suggest.
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REMARKS BY " RAPHAEL."
I WAS born in a farm-house in the East of England. At the

age of ten was sent to the village school ; left again at fourteen.
My father died February, 1861. I commenced the study of Astrology
in 1862, and studied it day and night for the following eight years.
At the age of fifteen I went to London into an engineer's office, where
I remained seven years. Married, September, 1871. In May, 1875,
got the editorship of the Prophetic Messeng,r, and, a few months later,
secured the Copyright.
HEALTH.-U p to the age of thirty this was very good, with the
exception of a mild attack of rheumatic fever in the. spring of 1874.
After thirty I over-worked myself, and contracted a peculiar weakness
of the stomach, which seems chronic. .I am a stranger to head-aches.
MoNEY.-During 1873 and 1874 was in low water, but before and
since have nothing to complain of; in fact, my success has been
greater than I expected.
EMPLOYMENT. -This has been chiefly m connection with
Astrology (especially), Engineering, Farming, . and Gardening.
Nothing, however, succeeded with me like Astrology.
MARRIAGE.-Very happy. My wife has 2f. in ,,!lo in the 7th in *
to
the 0, so our quarrels are not many.
CHILDREN.-About sixteen or seventeen. The three first and the
last one are alive, healthy, and strong; the others were chiefly
still-born.
TRAVELLING.-Very little. A few journeys and changes of
residence. Lucky in the N., N.E., or E. Very unfortunate in
the S.E.
FRIENDs.-Next to none. Do not care for them. They generally
turn up when they are not wanted!
ENEMIES.-If I have any, I do not know it. Critics L have, and
plenty of them; and if any of them feel spiteful towards me, I am
sorry for them.
170 THE HOUSES AND EXALTATIONS OF THE PLANETS,
J o W makes me quick in anger, and when young my temper was

very bad.
0 in 2nd, I set no value on money, and spend it as fast as I make
it. ? DJ+.
The D in 4th, I attribute much of my success to this position.
~ o 2+. I make no end of blunders .
ii in 6th, my employes are faithful fellows, and will do anything
for me ; but if I want to be s11ccessfttl,
I must rely on myself.
According to Phrenology I have an excess of Amativeness,
Inhabitiveness, Combativeness, Constructiveness, Approbativeness,
Firmness, Conscientiousness, Ideality, Sublimity , Individuality,
Imitation, Form, Size, Causality, Comparison, Human Nature, and
Agreeableness; I am deficient in Continuity, Acquisitiveness, Weight,
and Eventuality. The other organs are normal.
ttbe bouses anb.£Jaltattonsof tbe Planets.
0 UR friend "Sagittarius" has sent us an interesting communication

in reference to the " houses " and " exaltations " of the planets,
which will, we think, be read with avidity by experimental students
at all events. The following is the epitomisation of what he
adduces.
It is admitted by all astrologers that Uran us ( W) has great influence
in the airy triplicity ( n ~ :), and that his chief domal dignity is :,
also that Wis of the nature of ~ and ? combined, and it has been
repeatedly proved that W evolves negative electricity (like ? ), and
always lowers the temperature when in aspect to 0, 2 , ~ , or the D,
therefore since the discovery of W and tp, modern astrologers have
acted wisely in dethroning ? from : (Ptolemy's system), and giving
that sign as the chief house of the eccentric Uran us. Pisces ( *) for
the same reason is the chief house of W, and poor old Jove ( 2+) must
be satisfied with t in future. The following are no doubt the reasons
why Wshould rule in : and W in *.
The Sun ( 0) fountain of light and life to our system rules in
Leo ( Sl,) as his own house ; the first planet revolving round him
(rejecting the inter-mercurial planet Vulcan of R. A. Proctor) is
Mercury ( ~) who consequently gets Virgo (ll_)t)the next sign to st, as
~ 's sphere is next to the 0; then comes Venus (?) next in order,
who, of course, gets Libra ( ~) for her house; passing the Earth, the
next in order is Mars ( J ) who gets Scorpio ( nt) ; the next sign in .
THE HOUSES AND EXALTATIONS OF THE PLANETS. I]I
rotation then, omitting the asteroids (Ceres, Vesta, etc.) in toto,

Jupiter ( 2(.) gets Sagittarius ( t ) the next in order;. then comes
Saturn ( ? ) who follows on with Capricorn us (I')') the next sign. Here
Ptolemy turns and goes backward ? , 2(., <!, etc., from the
circumference to the centre, but we moderns who have W and W to
complete our system and deal with, must advance and not recede as
Ptolemy did for he knew nothing of these two planets W and W;
therefore the next planet in the order of nature to ? who has lrj' only
is W, who must of necessity have Aquarius (.=); the next sign, and
the last of the spheres is W, so he for the same reason must have the
last sign (,() for his " domal " dignity. Aries ( 'Y'), the vernal equinox
and the first sign of the circle, is given to <! who is akin to the earth
in nature, the principle of wrath and selfishness predominating over the
principle of love, henc.e <! gets 'Y' next to* in the zodiac. Returning
to the 0 & the sphere of ? comes next, so she gets Taurus ( 8 ) the
next sign for her other house, then below ? is lJ, so consequently he
gets Gemini ( n ) for the same reason. Then comes the Moon ( »),
swiftest of all the heavenly wanderers, so the fair Luna gets the next
sign Cancer ( Qli)for her house, then the J) joins the 0 & , and from the
conjoint principles of heat and moisture in union another gestation
commences and so on ad-infinitum.
"Steady, my friend," says an objector, "why should the inferior
planets lJ and ? and the small planet <! (with his two recently
discovered moons) have two houses allotted to each of them?" Why,
my friend? because they move so swiftly. lJ is only about a fortnight in
a sign when not stationary in it, and for this reason has two signs for
houses, and ? likewise,and <f, although really a superior, as he moves
beyond the earth's orbit, must, as far as his swift motionand small magnitude
is concerned,be considered an inferior, unlesshe be stationary, being only
about six weeks in a sign, hence lJ, ? , and <! being swiftly moving
planets, comparedto 2(., ? , W,and W, have for the aforesaid reason two
houses each allotted them, but the giant planets 2(., ? , W, and W,on
accountof their slow and ponderousmotion, have only one house each. The
0 and J) being passiveplanets, and, accordingto Ptolemy, the most essential
significators translating the influences of all the planets to our earth,
have for this reason one houseeachonly, even though the lesser luminary
is the swiftest in motion of any of them. ·
(To be continued.)
The conjunction of Mars with Uranus on December 7th, was followed

by a very severe storm, which did an immense amount of damage on the
English coasts, and caused the loss of many lives.
'Roteson btnbu Bstroloo\?.
T HE Brikat Jataka gives a few words of description of the

Navamsas as they rise, but the account is so unsatisfactory as
not to be worth transcribing. We hope that if our Hindu readers
have information on the subject of the influence of the Navamsas, they
will transmit it to us, that we may publish it for the benefit of all
astrologers.
The strongest N avamsas are said to be those which fall in signs of
the same name; for instance, Sagittarius Navamsa in sign Aries is not
so strong as the same Navamsa in sign Sagittarius. Until we have
further information on the subject, we would suggest that the influence
of the Navamsas (assuming them to possess any) must be similar to
that of the signs after which they are named (and for these see
"Sepharials" Prognostications, and elsewhere), but that in every case
the influence of the Navamsa must be subordinate to that of the sign
in which it falls. The poet Shelley was born with the 27th degree of
Sagittarius rising, and this is the last, or Sagittarius Navamsa of that
sign, and is strong because it agrees in nature with the sign. As
Sagittarius is the ninth sign of the zodiac, and corresponds in influence
to the ninth house, this is a very characteristic position, especially as
.the planet Jupiter, ruling both sign and Navamsa, was in the ninth
house. In Shelley's figure (published in Fate and Fortune), the Moon,
Jupiter, and Mars were all in Venus Navamsas, and Venus, the ruler
of them, although in the mundane eighth house, was zodiacally in the
ninth sign from the ascending sign ; and Venus and the Moon were in
mutual reception by Navamsas.
"Alan Leo" was born with a Sagittarius Navamsa, 27° Sl 34'
rising ; and this is not unsuitable for one whose activities, · in more
than one direction, come largely under the ninth house.
Take the horoscope of "John J. H." on page 9, the first in the
Infantile Mortality series: Leo is rising, and its ruler, the Sun, is in
conjunction with Saturn in the fifth, or Aquarius Navamsa of
Gemini, which position makes the Sun weak and Saturn strong.
Mercury is their dispositor by sign, and he also rules the Navamsas of
the Ascendant and the Moon, and is himself at 23° ~ 57' weak in a
Sagittarius Navamsa, and casting a square to the ascendant. Five
planets in the figure are .in Saturnian Navamsas, a testimony against
long life.
The following aphorism will be of interest at the present time :-
" If the births occurs at twilight (just before sunrise or just after
sunset), when a lunar hora is rising, and whe11malefic(>occupy the l~st
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Navamsas of signs, the child will die young." We are also told that
the Moon in a last Navamsa, unless counteracted by benefics, is a bad
testimony for long life.
This finds exemplification in the horoscope of "Elizabeth B.," the
second of the Infantile Mortality series, page 33. 8°~ 30' is rising, a
weak lunar sign and a lunar hora. The ruler, the Moon, is in the last
Navamsa of sign Capricorn, detrimented by sign, and weak by
Navamsa because the last, and in opposition to Jupiter, lord of an
unfavourable house, the sixth . The cusp of the Ascendant and the
Moon are both in Virgo Navamsas, and their ruler Mercury is in
square to Mars, and in a Saturnian Navamsa; Saturn also being in
his own Navamsa and in the twelfth house.
In the next .case, given on page 55, the child was born with
24° ~ 23' rising, a sign which is well known to give convulsions.
The ascending Navamsa is Leo, its ruler, the Sun, being in
conjunction with Mars, thus aggravating the tendency to convulsions,
and in the sign Leo governing the back . The child died of
convulsions and spinal disease.
The next child, "Edward E .," page 74, died of diarrhrea. The
ascendant was o0 * 45', a weak watery sign, and a Cancer Navamsa
ruling the stomach. Virgo, the sign ruling the bowels, has Mercury
for its lord, and he was at 8° ~ 38', a Pisces Navamsa, weak for
Mercury, and also watery. The Sun, lord of the sixth house,
governing the bowels, was at 19° 'Y' 28', a Virgo Navamsa, and Virgo
rules the bowels.
It would be possible to continue this analysis indefinitely ; but
probably enough has been said to convince the reader that there is
frrimafacie evidence in favour of the claim of Hindu Astrologers that
these Navamsas are of importance.
LEO .
(To be continued.)
We have received from India a recently published book on Astrology, by

Sepharial. It is published at the office of the Theosophist, Adyar, Madras,
and consists of a series of lectures delivered before the Mylapur Literary
Society. _There are three lectures, entitled "Records of the Past," " Astrology in
Relation to Man," and "Astrology as a Science"; and these are followed by an
examination of the horoscope of Her Majesty the Queen, whose figure is
given first in the ordinary form, and then in Sanskrit, in the Hindu fashion.
Special attention is given to the Queen 's directions and transits for the next
two years, and predictions are made from them as to the events that are
likely to happen. The substance of part of the book has already been given
either in this magazine or in Fate and Fortune, but other parts of it are new.
The lectures were intended for a Hindu audience, but they will prove of
considerable interest to all astrologers.
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B ~ecultar boroscope.
(Page 140, Vol. 3.)
0 I
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S\, \1 :i
DAUGHTER OF AUTHORESS.
Born 5-p.m.,
April 16th, 1859,
Austu, Texas,
97° W. Long., 32° N. Lat.
P. DECLINATIONS. MUTUAL ASPECTS,
10° N. 1' L ~ P. D
30 s. 54' l;;1 W 2f. P. 0
1':,.
150 N. 52' D ? L 2f.

60 s. 47' D 2f.L0
19° N. 16' P. ?
220 N. 44' L'?D~!':,.D
190 N. 44' * W L 2f. P. t o ~
20° N. 2o' P. ? l;;1 J)
DISPOSITION.-ln this Natus the J) is nsmg in a moveable sign

~. shows a disposition fond of change, active, aspiring, sociable,
fond of society, philanthropic; such people usually make friends
easily, because they are not infrequently good conversationalists. As
Jupiter trines the Moon from 9th, this person will take a great interest
in anything of a philanthropic nature. This position shows her to be
kind, charitable, well intentioned, one who is willing to relieve want
and to administer to the needs of suffering humanity.
It is an excellent position for these planets, etc., placed so in a
female natus, giving a tender, generous, and sympathetic disposition.
She is moved by motives high and moral in their character, and as
both planets are in scientific signs and in congenial houses, she would
probably take delight in literary works on moral subjects. ? o t will
at times make her hasty and rash, and with !;! o ? she will treat with
A PECULIARHOROSCOPE, 175
strong measure those who endeavour to do her injury. These

positions show her weaknesses, just as the D o 1(. pointed out her
good qualities.
They show her to be reserved in the expression of her sentiments,
inclined to practice strategy, guarded, shrewd, and artful. People
with these positions have the power to deceive, and take delight in
effecting surprises, hence they can be taciturn, or non-committal in their
sentiments, and have the tact to cover up their actions; such can afford
to wait to pay off old scores, and although this person may forgive
an injustice, she would never forget it.
I,! o? from fixed signs show her to be somewhat deter-
mined and deliberate. I should imagine from the L ? to 1(., and
D t:,. 1(. that she would take an active interest in religious matters.
However, as W is on cusp of ninth, and I,! ruler of ninth in L 1(. and
o ? , she will differ considerably from the generally accepted doctrine.
This position of Won cusp of ninth, in a scientific sign, usually shews a
fondness for argument, and such are readily disposed to defend and
maintain just what their conscience may dictate.
MENTALQUALITIES.- I,!, principal ruler of the mental faculties, is not

well placed in this patus, being afflicted by 1(. and ? without assistance.
Airy signs on Ascendant and ninth houses, shew a fondness for
science and literature,. and as I,! o ? from fixed signs she would
possess a mind capable of retaining much, and as this position is
significative of determination in mental pursuit, she could, by sheer
force of will, accomplish much. This position shews tenacity,
resoluteness, and a determination to overcome obstacles ; hence the
persons having these positions at birth, which are not directly
significative of much mental ability, at least shew mental capacity, and
the possession of those qualities, which, if properly employed, will
enable them to attain to a position in the intellectual world. As I,! is
afflicted by 1(. and ? , she would readily enter into debate, but would
manifest irritability, and a disagreeable temperament, if the point of
argument went against her.
FINANCE,-2(., general significator of wealth ; t:,. D, the latter
rising; also D P 0, point to the financial affairs being, on the whole,
satisfactory.
? o 1(. shew a lavishness, either in finery or good living, and
probably difficulty in matters connected with fifth, sixth, or eighth
houses. (? o 1(.. 1(. L ? .)
Mars, ruler of second in eighth in P ? , either points to a marriage
partner who is poor or extravagant.
176 A PECULIARHOROSCOPE.
MARRIAGE.-Venus, ruler of the amative principle, is in the sixth
in o 1(. and L 0, and from these positions I should say her love of the
opposite sex would not be a passionate one; however, as D t:. 1(., she
could love warmly and devoutly, and, as D P 0, would make a
kind wife.
The positions of ? and ? would seem to point to an early marriage,
though not unduly early, as a barren sign occupies the cusp of fifth,
also the eleventh.
The 0 in seventh, in a fiery sign in L ? PD, point to an austere,
exacting husband ; however, he will be sociable, generous, and well
disposed, with a military bearing, fond of order and discipline.
CHILDREN.-ln judging of the prospects in this direction, it will be
observed that a barren sign occupies the fifth ; also that the ruler
thereof is in a barren sign near cusp of eleventh : testimonies against
offspring. The D angular in fruitful sign t:. 1(. may give one, but I
doubt whether it will be reared, as ? is on cusp of eleventh.
FRIENDS AND ENEMIEs.-The 0 P D and D t:. 1(. shew many
powerful friends, whereas 7 near eleventh, L 1(., shew some will
prove false, and probably seek to injure the native through the press,
~ 0?.
On the whole she will be well respected, and will attain
notoriety or fame in some way or other, shewn by the elevated position
of 1(., and the occupation of the angles by cardin~l signs.
TRAVELLING.-Movable signs on angles shew a desire to move
about, and as D from the Ascendant aspects W on cu_sp of ninth,
travelling is shewn. Long journeys should be profitable, shewn
by 1(. in ninth t:. D·
HEALTH.-A strong sign rising with D therein, Par 0 and t:. 2.(.,
and ? in sixth, shew a good constitution.
I should imagine from the o of 2.(. to ? from common signs, also
the position of 7 in Sl, opposition ::::, ruling blood, that she would be
subject to dropsical complaint or poorness of blood.
This would be confirmed by cf in ~ , a fixed sign o to st, and ::::.
Truly yours,
ARTHURELSON.
We predicted on page 108 that "France will be greatly excited during the
rule of the neomenia, and turbulence may be expected to arise in the
debates in the legislative assembly." This was strangely fulfilled on Decem-
ber 9th, when Vaillant, an anarchist, threw a bomb from the gallery · of the
Chamber of Deputies. It exploded, but fortunately did no great damage.
B 'Remarkable
,boroscope.
The Horoscope of the late

MR. D!NKAR BALWANT PATWARDHAN.
Born March 2, 1862, 10h. 35m. p.m.,
at Poona. Died Dec. 2, 1893,
at 9.20 p.m., at Bombay.
V
T HE above horoscope presents several features of interest, and as
the subject of it was a hardworking member of the Bombay
Astrological Society we have especial pleasure in giving it publicity,
although our pleasure is imbued with _deep regret that the talented
astrologer has passed away so soon after the formation of the Society,
of which he was one of the founders, and in the welfare of which he
was very keen. As will be seen, cardinal signs hold the angles, but no
planets are in the angular houses, although Mars and the Moon are
on the threshold of the fourth and seventh in square aspect.
His significator Venus, although well aspected by Mars, is badly
placed, and had she been angular, the signification of the cardinal signs
would have been manifested publicly; but as Venus is not prominent,
he was not a " notable " man in the strict sense of the term. From
the fact that all the planets were in cardinal and common signs, he had
exceptional abilities and was decidedly versatile; the aspect of Mars to
Venus and Mercury, would give him quickness of thought and acute
perception, and would also give mathematical ability. The mystic
planet Uranus, in a scientific sign, in the ninth house, is in sextile to the
Moon. This, as we have previously pointed out, always confers
astrological ability, especially if one or the other be in either the ninth
or the third house. The evil houses (the sixth and twelfth) are occupied
by the luminaries, and by Jupiter and Saturn. At birth, the Sun was
separating from the sextile of Mars and applying to the square of
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MR, GLADSTONE'S DIRECTIONS,
Uranus, and the Moon was in sextile to the latter and square to the
former planet, a peculiar contrast. Under these adverse positions and
aspects, a long life could not be expected, and it is as well to note that
Venus is 31° 35' 14" from the Moon, which at a degree for a year is
significant, when we find he lived thirty-one years and nine months,
and both these planets have relation to the eighth house. By secondary
direction, the 0 had progressed to 13 er 8 ascendant , separating from
a square of if radical, in * to W radical and progressive, and applying
to a L of ~ and ? radical,-the D has progressed to o0 n 30' in square
to ? and ~ radical, and in the house of death, and by cyclic direction
or process the Ascendant is 10 rrt, consequently n is on the cusp of
the progressed eighth, and the ]) with Uran us ; the latter planet
afflicting the Sun at birth is in this house. There are no strong
benefic directions to avert the final issue, and we judge the death was
a sudden one.
mr. '5IabstonetslDtrecttons.
The following are the Premier's Post-Natal directions for the
immediate future :-
PRIMARY. SECONDARY.
0 P. d ? P. 2° separating. DP. L ? E, = April, 1894.
,, 8 DE. = 1891. " *~E. ) J une, 1 894.
P ar ~ P . r =
0E.* ~ P. = 1894. ,,
,, o ? P.
0P.Par?P.
·t_ "* l:,. 0~ P.E<)r =
,,
JIu y, I 894·
-
86
I 9 •
,, ParD P.J * Ase. = August, 1894.
"
"LJE, " w
d E. = Dec. 1894.
Ase. o? P. = 1897. o'bfP. = Jan. 1895.
"
0P. o ~ E, 1898. LD E. = Feb. 1895.
"
0P.00E. = 1899. oM.C. = April, 1895.
"
DJ E, = June, 1895.
"
L ~ E, )
" = July, 1895.
l;J ?P, f
"
L 0E. = Aug. 1895.
"
L Ase. }
" P ar WE. = Sept. 1895.
·
" Par 'bfP. = Oct. 1895.
" Par if E, = Jan. 1896.
"
From this it will be seen that the progressed D is now entering rrt,
and, as this sign is elevated, and the D receives good aspects during the
summer and early autumn of this year, considerable parliamentary
MR. GLADSTONE'S DIRECTIONS. 179
success may be anticipated then, with the probable passage of useful
legislation. It is worth noticing, in connection with the rumour that
Mr. Gladstone is translating Horace, that Mercury, the literary planet,
is very prominent by direction this year.
Towards the end of the present year a very evil period seems tt> be
inaugurated, and, on that account, it is worth while examining the
directions more closely.
The 0 and D were near a dexter square at Mr. Gladstone's birth.
The 0 by direction came to the opposition of the radical D in 1891,
and it reaches the square of its own radical position in 1899. The
midway point between these two aspects is situated at 3° 'Y' 45 1, and
this will be reached by the 0 in September, 1895. Until that date the
progressed 0 must be considered as still in opposition to the D, and
after then it will proceed to its own square. This shows us that 1895
will be a critical year.
By the method of adding 1° to the M.C. for each year of life, the
M.C. for 1895 will be at 13° ::::, which is o W and applying to the d
of if~.
By the method of adding 30° to the Ascendant for each year of life,
the Ascendant meets the o of W in February, 1895, and the d of if
in the following year.
Comparing all these indications, we cannot come to any other con.
clusion than that a very evil and critical period will begin for Mr.
Gladstone in the latter part of the present year, and will continue
during 1895, the worst period being, apparently, the first half of 1895.
During this time of evil influences, the present Parliament will, we
think, come to an end. Death will invade the Premier's family circle,
and will also strike heavily upon one exalted personage in close relation
with him ; the sign Scorpio seems to indicate a female. Seeing the
native's great age, it is only too probable that he himself will bow to
Pallida M ors during the period indicated.
It is curious that, while Mr. Gladstone has the directions D d W,
o if , during 1895, the Queen has the similar directions D o W, o if in
the same year.
" Sepharial" has commented, in his recently published book of
lectures, on the effect of the successive lunations during 1894 and 1895
upon the Queen's horoscope; and we advise the student to also watch
them in connection with Mr. Gladstone's figure. If a lunation falls in
evil major aspect to any important place in the horoscope, this has all
the force of a malific secondary direction.
In addition, the eclipses, whether of the Moon or Sun, should be
noticed; and the transits of Mars. Conjunctions and oppositions with
his Moon, Mars, and Uran us, will indicate the critical periods.
B ttranettof 'Reptune.
Is the influence of Neptune beneficor malefic?
NoTE.-On May 31st, 1893, Mr. H. McCalmont's "Isinglass" won the

Derby, and Mr. H. McCalmont attained thirty-two years of age, and became
entitled, under his great uncle's will, to £4,000,000!
On May 31st, 1893,at noon, the Sun was inn 10.12,and Neptune in n 10.59.
I N this case, at least, Neptune seems to have brought great good

fortune to Mr. McCalmont on the thirty-second anniversary of
his birth. It would be interesting to know how other persons born
upon May 31st, in any year, were affected by this transit of Neptune
over the Sun, on the anniversary of their birth ? This position of
Neptune, and the accompanying facts are worth consideration, especially
as affecting the power of transits of the Sun by the Planets on the
anniversary of a birth.
There seems little doubt that transits of the superior planets over
the place of the Sun on the anniversary of a birth are productive of
great and immediate results. At other times transits are not so
certain in their effects. These observations are, at present, confined to
transits by conjunction only. It must be remembered that when a
transit of the Sun takes place on the anniversary of a birth, the Sun is
then actually in conjunction with the transiting planet, but at a
transit by conjunction at any other period of the year, the Sun would
not be in actual conjunction with the transiting planet, although the
transiting planet was in conjunction with the place of the radical Sun.
This being so, it follows that transits fall naturally into two categories.
( 1) Transits, and actual conjunction.
(2) Transits, but no actual conjunction.
The first being powerful and rapid in effects. The second less
powerful, and less certain in effects.
This rule should be applied to aspects by transit, as well as to
conjunctions by transit. But so much importance shoul9 not be
attached to aspects by transit, (unless, perhaps, the opposition on an
anniversary), as to conjunctions by transit.
The word aspects is not intended to include Parallels of Declination.
There is much to learn regarding transits, whether their effects
are the same upon Radical and upon Progressive places in the
Nativity, whether they require the assistance of directions, primary
or secondary, or both, or whether they have an inherent power
entirely independent of directions. The only road towards a solu-
tion of these difficulties lies in the direction of a careful analysis of
THE VERNAL INGRESS, 181
numerous Nativities. lJltimately, no doubt, after much labour, the

law regulating the effects of transits will be discovered; at present
we know but little.
Anyone inclined to investigate this subject of transits should
carefully distinguish between transits affecting the Radical and the
Progressive places of a Nativity.
There is much to be said both for and against the effects of a
transit, or ingress of a planet over a Progressive place, and the
matter is worthy of careful examination.
Perhaps the marked and rapid effect of the transit of Neptune
over Mr. McCalmont's Sun may be the means of awakening fresh
interest, and of urging on enquiries and researches tending towards
the wished-for goal.
AQUARIUS,
ttbe 1l'ernal
3ngress.
The 0 enters <y>
2h. 59m. p.m.

20th March, 1894 .
T HE figure for the Sun's entry into Aries shews the lord of the
ascendant in the house of death ; there will be gaps in the
higher circles during the period ruled by the figure, and as the Moon
is opposed to Mercury in the eighth house, much mortality amongst
young persons will occur. The position of Jupiter in the Mid-heaven
is favourable for useful measures being passed by the rulers of public
affairs, but there will be a falling off in the revenue. Accidents on
railways are likely, and explosions in mines, etc., are deduced from the
positions of Saturn and Herschel. The ruler of the M.C. on cusp of
the seventh points to an increase of marriages.
MUNDANE ASTROLOGY,
At St. Petersburg, a failing revenue and exciting correspondence

anent foreign affairs will be the chief factors during the period. New
York will experience a heavy death rate, amongst whom many notable
persons will be found. Much sickness will be rife. A female
scientist will come to the front, and some notable discoveries will
be made.
.munbaneBstrolog\?.
A T the time of New Moon the conjoined luminaries are on the cusp
of the ninth house, separating from a sextile of Mars, and
applying to a similar aspect to Jupiter. The position of Jupiter is
favorable for the authorities, but Mars in the sixth foreshadows much
sickness, the lord of the eighth in the fourth heavy bills of mortality.
The position of Venus (who is part ruler of the Mid-heaven) in the
seventh shews a royal marriage will probably be on the tapis; but, as
the lesser benefic is retrograde, delay is likely.
From the position of the greater malefics in the fourth house, we
shall not be surprised to hear of explosions or seismic disturbances
during the month. The death of members of the legislature will
cause concern.
St. Petersburg will experience a heavy death rate ; and serious
accidents to public buildings and on railways are foreshadowed.
At New York trade will be good, but epidemical diseases will be
very prevalent, and much ill-health will be experienced by the
community.
•
ttbe Stgnttlcatton
of tbe munbanebouses.
A S most of our students are aware, and as I have taught in my
lessons in Vol. I., the "Houses" are two-fold, viz ., "Celestial"
and "Mundane." The "Celestial" houses are the twelve signs of the
zodiac, each of which is ruled by one of the planets, and such
zodiacal sign is termed "a planet's house," e.g., Aries ( 'Y') ruled by
Mars ( J') is known as one of the houses of Mars, Scorpio ( l11.)being
the other.
· The " Mundane" houses are different, these consist of the division
of the zodiac into twelve unequal portions, except on the equator,
where the division is equal, for as" Raphael" wisely says in his Manttal,
"at the equator, where the Sun is vertical, all celestial arcs are
measured by rectangles, equal parts of the zodiac pass through the
great circle of the equator in equal times; or, in other words, every
mundane house would contain just thirty degrees, but in every other
part of the globe the oblique ascension of the earth in her orbit
(which causes the length and shortness of our days) causes the Sun to
apparently rise earlier and set later · at one period of the year than
another; and this causes his semi-diurnal arc, or apparent space between
sunriseand noonto be greater or less as the year advances or decreases,"
and if the student will refer to any of the maps in this magazine, he
will find that none of the houses comprise exactly thirty degrees,
for some contain more and some le_ss, according as the sign is one
of long or short ascension.
Each of these Mundane houses has certain significations in relation
to mundane (or earthly) affairs, and are divided into simple and com-
pound significations. The simple signification of these has already
been given in Vol. I., but as investigation has fo~nd modification and
alteration necessary, I will first give the simple signification of the
houses, and follow on with the compound.
The simple signification of the houses is as follows :- The
first, the house of life ; second, riches ; third, brethren, short
journeys; fourth, the house of the mother, also the grave; fifth,
children, speculation; sixth, sickness; seventh, the house of mar-
riage or partnership ; eighth, death ; ninth, long journeys, religion,
science; tenth, honour, the house of the father; eleventh, friends; the
twelfth, sorrow, secret foes.
The compound significations of the houses are numerous, and by
applying the simple significations to the various houses and matters
relating to them, numerous other significations are manifest. For
example-the third house is the house of brethren, if we treat that house
(the third) as the brothersascendant, the fourth house is the brothers
184 THE SIGNIFICATION OF THE MUNDANE HOUSES,
second (or house of wealth), although judged from the native's ascen-
dant, it is the fourth house, and has relation to the mother's affairs, &c.
It will thus be seen that endle~s significations are arrived at by
treating each house in a similar way. I will now give some compound
significations of each house, leaving the student or professor to
amplify them, if need be.
The first house signifies the wealth of secret foes, the brethren of
friends, the grandmother on the father's side, the sickness of public or
open enemies, or of the open enemies of his wife if married, or husband
if the horoscope is for a female, or public enemies of partners, the
death of servants, the grandfather on the mother's side, the honor and
reputation of the mother, &c., &c.
It is a masculine house, and rules the head and the face, the same
as the sign Aries, for as Aries is the first sign of the Zodiac, so is the
Ascendant the first house of the horoscope.
The second house has signification of finance in general, the
brethren of private enemies, the mothers of friends, the death of
partners, wives, and open enemies, the religion, and long journeys of
servants, the friends of the mother, the private enemies of brethren.
It is a magnetic, feminine house, and is similar to the sign Taurus,
ruling the same parts of the human system, viz., throat, neck,
and ears.
The third .house has reference to brethren, kindred, neighbours,
cousins, short journeys, letters, messages, the mothers of private
enemies, the children of friends, the father's sickness, the friends of
children, etc. It is an electric masculine house, and, like Gemini,
rules the arms, hands, shoulders, &c.
The fourth house concerns the affairs of the mother and her patri-
mony, all matters relating to lands, secrets, hidden matters, the end of
life, the wealth of brethren, the children of private enemies, the sick-
ness of friends, the private enemies of children, &c. It is a magnetic
feminine house, and, like Cancer, rules the heart, lungs, &c.
The fifth house has signification of children, speculation, the
pleasures of the native, th~ wealth of the mother, the brethren of
brethren, the sickness of private enemies, the enemies of friends, the
private enemies of servants, enemies friends, &c.
It is an electric masculine house, and rules the stomach, liver,
heart, side and back, like Leo.
The sixth house has an evil signification, being the house of sick-
ness, servants, dependents, uncles and aunts on the mother's side,
small cattle, the finance of children, private enemies of partner,
married or otherwise, as the case may be.
It is a feminine magnetic house, and rules the abdomen and intes-
tinf's, similar to Virgo.
(To be continued.)
3nfantile mortaltt\?.
(Summary Continued.)
BY "ALAN LEO."
I F the student will turn to page 33, present vol., he will find the
case of "Elizabeth B." who died just previous to her fifth birth-
day. That she would die any astrologer would predict, but when, I
doubt if there are many who would commit themselves so far, as
to say. The Moon who has chief rule over a female's health is here
heavily afflicted, and in this case happens to be Hyleg; being within
5° above the Cusp of the eighth house she opposes Jupiter and is
Sesquiquadrate Saturn, the latter being also lord of the eighth.
Now why did Elizabeth live nearly 5 years with this great afflic-
tion ? The Moon by direction passes Square Saturn and Sesqui-
quadrate Jupiter without killing, and is actually applying to a Sextile
of Saturn when the child dies, so I think, with reason, we can safely
say that the Moon had nothing to do with her decease, so far as her
progressive motion is concerned. There seems to be only one thing
to account for the life being prolonged for five years. Mars, the
giver of heat, force, and energy, is posited in the first, the house of
life, and the only affliction he has is square to Mercury, which
planet in consequence will act as Mars. The Sun and Venus have
but just left the Sextile of Mars and thus adds strength to the con-
stitution to enable the child to resist the affliction of Saturn. Sun
and Venus are also unafflicted in the fourth house.
Now the first affliction by process was Saturn square ascen-
dant which falls in Virgo. If the map be turned round until Virgo
ascends, Sun and Venus will be strong in the ascendant, and Mars,
who is ruler of the process eighth house, is within orbs of sextile
Sun and so the square of Saturn is not allowed to act. The next
evil to Saturn will be the sesquiquadrate ; if you erect a map with
5°l11.on the ascendant you will have a figure for ascendant g '?.
At first glance there seems little hope, but I should consider there was
hope, for Mars who is still strong is in elevation over Saturn, and
sustains the natural heat, for Mars is lord of the processed ascen-
dant and thus has chief rule, but the next affliction is too severe
to be overcome, as can be seen by figure vi ; Mars is weakened
by falling in the eighth, the Moon rules the house of death, and
is opposite to Jupiter, and the progressive Moon is in the fourth
house, the grave in square to the radical ascendant.
This child appears to have held on to life to the bitter end; it
must have been a struggle all through. If we process the Moon i~
t86 INFANTILE MORTALITY.
the same way as tµe ascendant,· we find it is exact square to the

planets in the fourth house of the figure v. a very strong argument in
favour of the process theory.
THE CASE OF J. R.'S SON.
The next case on pages 55 and 56 needs very little comment here,
for (as I explained when giving the particulars) the process very
clearly pointed to the time of death; the processed ascendant has only
to come between Saturn and Jupiter, forming a square, and the boy
dies. I presume in this case, according to the old authors, we may
consider Jupiter as holding an Hylegracal place; but I am not inclined
to attach much importance to this, as he is lord of the eighth.
On page 74, are the particulars of Edward E. I am informed that
he was a fine child, well developed, and with good features. But
Edward did not have a long turn in, for he only lived nine months, and
Saturn in the fourth, the end was a strong argument in favour of a
short life. I presume in this case the Hyleg will be the Ascendant,
according to the old writers, but to what direction we _must look for
time of death, no author-ancient or modern-appears to state, for
the Moon here does not point to the death time, and I fail to see any
other cause for death save the process which is Ascendatit"Square Saturn.
The previous New Moon fell in the eighth hou_se. This is yet
another strong case in favour ·of the Process System.
The case following this is that of a female who lived just over thir-
teen months. I stated that the Moon had progressed to 28° 8 • It
should have been 14° 8, which brings the Moon to exact sesqui-
quadrate the Sun, just separating from Square Jupiter, but applying
to Trine Mercury and Saturn, and the Moon rules the eighth. The
processed Ascendant is V)' 2°, to which the Moon has progressed to
sesquiquadrate of. This is purely a lunar case, the Moon, who
governs the health of a female, is ruler of the house of death, and, but
for the Moon's trine to the Sun at birth, I doubt if she would have
survived so long as thirteen months. If we process the Moon in the
same way as the Ascendant, she falls in opposition to Venus at time of
death and also square to Mars.
In the case of C. L., the Moon, ruler of the eighth house of death,
is besieged between the malifics Saturn and Uran us, both of which
planets are retrograde, in elevation, and the Moon at the time of death
is just separated from the semi-square of Saturn; the process Ascendant
is square Mars and Uranus; the exact degree of the Midheaven falls
on the Cusp of the eighth, with Herschel therein ; on the day of death
Saturn transits the M.C., and Mars applies to the opposition of the
radical Moon. Now, the death was sudden, ~hich would seem to
. THE STUDENTS' -CORN -ER.
point to the process Ascendant square Uran us and Mars as the fatal
factors, for the Moon had separated from the semi-square of Saturn,
but both Moon and process here accounts f~r the decease, and I think
• it needed the one to force the other into action. The testimonies for a
survival over infancy are here certainly very small, and I should be
very loath to say that the child would escape the Ascendant square
both Mars and Herschel.
The full particulars of the next case, Ida L., are given on page 75,
and need no further comment at present.
(To be continued.)
ltbe Stubentst <torner.

BY "RAPHAEL."
M ORE than one enquiry has reached me respecting the erection of

a map of the Heavens for different parts of the world. I will
now try to make this clear. Take the Sidereal time for the day without
any alteration, and add or subtract therefrom the "time from noon," and
the remainder will be the approximate Right Ascension of the
Meridian. I say approximate, because there is a small correction to be
made for the difference between Mean and Sidereal Time. This
amounts to about ten seconds per hour, or, say, two mimttes for
twelve hours. Now, this correction is no earthly use unless one knows
one's time is correct; and, as very few clocks are exactly correct, I did
not consider it necessary to mention this small correction in my " Key "
or "Guide," for, with our imperfect knowledge of Astrology, it is
unnecessary.
Take an example.-Suppose I wish to erect a map for July 1st,
1894, 6 p.m., at St. Louis, U.S.A., I proceed thus-
H. M. s.
Sidereal time, 1st July, 1894 6 38 6
Time from Noon (add) . 6 0 0
Correction for six hours - 0 I 0
12 39 6
With this amount I go to the nearest Table of Houses for St. Louis,
and place the signs on the cusps of the houses accordingly. So far,
so good. Now, in computing the places of the planets, consideration
must be had to the differencein time between St. Louis and Greenwich,
which is just six hours. Therefore, I must calculate the planets'
places as for 12 p.m. at Greenwich, because when it is 6 p.m. at St.
Louis, it is midnight at.,Greenwich.
188 NOTES ON RECENT EVENTS.
This example applies to all parts of the world ; but note, if the
time for the map is a .m., the time from noon, as well as the correction,
must be subtracted from the Sidereal time at noon.
Respecting Tables of Houses, these can now be obtained for every
degree of N. Latitude between 22° and 56°; the price is 10/-for the
whole. They are an American production, well printed, and very
accurate, and applicable to any Longifttde, East or West of Greenwich.
One correspondent refers to an Ephemeris published by the United
States Government at Washington. I have never seen a copy of it,
so do not know what it contains.
(To be co11tin11ed
)•
.£rrata.
On page 167, "the secondary directions are 3 p.m," it should
read " the secondary directions are D to Par ? ."
'Roteson 'Recent.£"ents.
The death of Professor Tyndall on December 4th, adds one more to the
list of distinguished persons whose deaths we predicted from the November
New Moon.
* * * * *
The position of Saturn in the mid-heaven of the figure for the December
New Moon, has had its due effect. Things have dragged on unsatisfactorily
in the House of Commons, and little or nothing has been accomplished in
the way of actual legislation.
* * * * *
In our remarks on the December Lunation, we predicted death amongst
Members of Parliament. This was fulfilled by the death, on 21st December,
of the Right Hon. E. Stanhope, M.P., a minister in the last Government.
* * * * *
We have received from Boston, U.S.A., a ponderous volume, entitled" The
Astrology of the Old Testament," by Karl Anderson. The book, which is
expensively printed and got up, is largely devoted to showing the bearing of
astrology upon the Bible narrative, with frequent references to freemasonry.
Several plates are given, one of the Dendera Zodiac. The book is made
unnecessarily large by the insertion in it of several Tables of Houses. Seeing
that most of these have already been printed elsewhere, we think the author
would have done well to omit them,or else to have published them separately.
The book as it now stands is a curious mixture of very elementary astrology,
with matter of an entirely different kind, relating to the religious aspect of
the science. These two divisions of the subject, we think, should have been
kept apart. We may say that the author is an advocate of the Part of
Fortune, the Dragon's head and tail, combustion, and other ancient methods
which most modern astrologers ~e inclined to drop.
1etters to tbe JEbttor.
N. B.- Writers of signed articles are alone responsible for th& opinions therein
contained.
SEVILLE,
SPAIN.
DEAR SIR,-1 feel constrained to say a few words, "with your permission
of course," about the lady's horoscope, which has been submitted to
"Raphael" for that gentleman's opinion, as to the astrological cause of an
affirmed happy marriage in face of radical testimony to the contrary, and
to the cause of death at the age of thirty-four in the absence of any
direction; forto quote "Raphael's" wordsfrompage 114ofDecember Number
of Magazine, he says he fails to find a suitable direction corresponding to the
time of death, and with respect to marriage we are led to infer (reading
between the lines) that "Raphael" has doubts about the conjugal happiness
of this lady, and we are pointed to the affliction of 0 by I;, and W· Now
I have often thought and still think that in giving judgment on marriage, the
ruler of the seventh ought to enter into our consideration, which opinion is,
so I think, upheld by this natus, for we find O, ruler of seventh, essentially
dignified, and in 6. J;, and ? and ~ , and this position of the ruler of the
seventh, together with the position of ? fo fifth, and I;, and d' would, in my
opinion, ensure happiness. The rath ,er late marriage, and the difference in
the respective ages, would be shewn by the affliction of 0, and also several
of the planets in barren signs. But it is with reference to the cause of death
that I should most especially like to speak, and, with all deference to
" Raphael" (who, by the bye, is slow to receive new doctrines) I would here
put in a plea for Pre-Natal direction, as discovered by " Leo," the efficacy
and power of which I have had ample proof, for in many cases which have
come under my observation, in the entire absence of Post-Natal directions,
events-striking events-have occurred which have exactly corresponded
to existing Pre-Natal ones, and the horoscope before us seems to be a case
in point. The Post-Natal Primary directions are not very favorable, but the
Pre-Natal are less so, for we find the 0 o O P ~ progress near o I;, P, and in
P 0 ? , ruler of sixth in P J;, and o d'. And during the months of Sep-
tember, October, and November, there are a train of evil Pre-Natal
secondary directions sufficient to account for death, for during these months
the D meets the D 0 R, D WP, 8 I;, P, 8 I;, R, II 2f.P, II 2f.R, and when we
remember that the radical place of the Dis afflicted by the progressed 8 ?
from sixth and o d' by Post-Natal motion, also that the consdtution is a
weak one, I think that H is wrong to say there are no Astrological directions,
or that " Raphael" fails to find any, which are irt operation at the time of
death, and which would account for the same.
Yours truly,
ARTHUR ELSON.
LETTERS TO THE EDITO~.
DEAR S,a,-In answer to "Amateur," · whose letter on the Niryana and

Sayana systems appears in your December number, I would state that what
he calls the " Bhawphal" (BhAvaphalam) is not affected by the rising of the
signs. The BhAvaphalam is due to the positions of the planets in the several
Houses (Bh!vas), not to the signs they may be in. But here " Amateur "
unconsciously associates the BhAva (House) with the RAs'i (sign), which is
what I have been stating all along as prevalent among almost all Hindu
Astrologers.
" Amateur " makes a mistake in reducing my Ascendant from t 27°
(should be t 25°) to the fifth degree, since he does not take the latitude of
birth into consideration, and the consequent oblique ascension of the Ascen·
dant. At the time of my birth the Ayandms'a (distance between the star
Revati and the Equinox) was at most 19° 5' 5".
I must also point out that " Sepharial" did not publish any such notice as
is quoted by him either in the TheosophicGleaner or elsewhere. I do not
know a paper of that name. But in the Theosophist,the editor has published
the notice referred to. In quoting, it is always advisable to be accurate.
In reference to the Ascension of the sign Scorpio in the Niryana and
Sayana systems, I can make nothing of the latitude for which the calculation
is given, and the date from which the AyanAms'a is computed are not
referred to. Hence the observation is without point.
Yours sincerely,
SEPHARIAL:
S1a,-I trust that you will excuse me for referring to a subject so far back
as my speculative figure for the birth of Deeming, and which was shortly
criticised in a superior sort of way in a following number of the Astrologers'
Magazine by "Iconoclast." I have re-examined the figure very carefully,
and can find no promise of lasting good in it. There is not a planet or angle
that is not afflicted one way or another ; for instance, the Ascendant 11 :::: 44
has o Wfrom the second house (wealth), I;;)J fourth house (on cusp of fifth,
but not cadent from the angle}, o 2+ If. near cusp of M.C., and by f ~
therein-
2+Ret. in close o ti ~ and Par. 0 -in the Houses of Life, Honor, and
the Grave. The Ascendant is certainly I::. D, but the latter is quickly
approaching D tF, 8 2+ and Par. J ; the latter position cannot be much
improved by the * 0 (separating), he being within orbs and approaching
D W 8 Ascendant L J and Par. ? .
~ ruler of fourth house, D ? lord of Ascendant, ? lady of the eighth,
near d ~ (?) applying, in the house of strife and contention, and o J;,, thus
doubly afflicted, while the "gentle" Moon is besieged between the cruel J;,
and blood-thirsty J in the lower angle.
0 J) J ? and ~ are descending, the evil ? Wand f are rising, and 2+,.
the only benefic ascending, is ~, and heavily afflicted.
Should you be able to insert these few further remarks, perhaps "Raphael"
will kindly give a short judgment of the original figure, purely on its merits as
a scheme, without reference to Deeming.
Now, that the Magazine has passed the critical point, a few figures given,
for judgment by students, would, perhaps, excite more interest than the
previous prize competitions did, when the number of subscribers was not so
large. With best wishes for the continued success of the Magazine,
I remain, yours truly,
'I::. 2+
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR,
DEARSrR,-1 am much interested in the Yarious death figures that appear

in your pages, the one on page 161 is especially good, but may I point out to
your contributor who remarks " How is it the birth figure does not shew a
more severe affliction of Virgo-the sign governing the bowels?" (a complaint
of which caused the death) that Venus, who is in the house of life, is in semi-
square to Herschel ruling the " death" house, and is transmitting the evil
she thus receives to Mercury in Virgo by a close semi-square, this latter
planet and sign being on the fourth, the grave, and end of all; and, in addi-
tion, Herschel in elevation is also in square to the lord of the fourth, the
rulers of life, death, and the grave being in mutual affliction, for, from the
position of Venus, she must have very considerable influence over the life,
although the Moon rules the Ascendant, and is afflicted by semi-square
Jupiter. In my opinion, it is significant that Mercury in Virgo, the bowels
receive the weight of affliction.
CORONA.
DEAR SIR,-1 have been waiting for Mr. Casael's explanation, which is as
weak as I expected it to be, and I am glad to see that " Raphael " has been
puzzled with Casael's figures for a long time, as it confirms me in my opinion.
Casael may have been right in every particular, as he staies, but as he per-
sonally knew the parties, Horary Astrology was, according to my idea, quite
unnecessary. Let us go back to his remarks-
( I) See his remark on page 141, viz., "The planet the Dlast separated
from shews what has recently happened ; therefore, as )) had recently
separated from d Venus, and as both 'Candid' and 'Raphael' agree that
the Moon signifies the querent, I stated boldly that a female urged her to
apply to me (which was admitted) ." Whether a female or a male suggested
the querent applying to Casael is immaterial, and has nothing to do with the
question ; but, if it did, Casael is thoroughly wrong, for Dlast separated from
I::, ? . .These are the figures: ? 12.14 ~. ~ 8.5 ::::, D 12.45 ::::. Come,
Casael, own like a man you are wrong, and also note there are only tu,o
queries, and you give seven replies.
(2) On page 245 Casael says 0 is not afflicted, whereas the 0 is O ? , a
very heavy affliction, according to my idea, and according to the teaching of
all authors who use the aspect; but now Casael quibbles again, and gives
another reason in his second reply on page 141.
(3) On the same page his reply to query 3 is a good specimen of
"making the fact suit the prediction," as could well be devised, viz., "as
Aquarius is a Western sign, why not America?"
(4) Casael again evades the point, and says Mercury signifies "young
persons," although he knows, but will not own it, that Mercury so placed in
any figure is 111asculi11e.
These sort of replies are unworthy of one who is supposed to be an
authority on Horary Astrology, and I only hope that any future Horary
figures Mr. Casael may publish will be judged strictly according to the rules
of Horary Astrology, and no personal knowledge of querents or their affairs
be allowed to bias the reading of the figure as he has done in this instance.
Personally, I have lost confidence in his Horary figures, and quite expect
that if others were closely investigated they would not be found entirely
satisfactory.
CANDID.
P.S.-1 may say I have just looked at the Horary figure and remarks on
page 33 of last volume of the Astrologers' Magazine, and the result bears out
what I have said previously in this letter.
DEAR SIR, - In the cu~ent nwnber of . the Magazine, ... Raphael"

declares, in reference to the natus of a lacly who died on the 27th of Novem-
ber, 1890, that the state of directional .Astrology is unsatisfactory.
Should "Raphael" be pleased, I beg of him to try my method, he will
judge it is quite satisfactory.
Here is my modus f acie11di, in an abridged form : The directions of the
radical map must be made by two ways-the first rational, and the second
planetary. These directions ha\'e both the same principle , that is to say, the
observation of the daily motion of the Sun, after birth, in its relation with the
signs of long, short, or middle Ascension; because the Sun, by its daily
progress, considered as annual, is the true moderator or regulator of the map
of the birthday.
(1) Then you must add for each day after birth as one year, at the place of
the radical sun, one degree of right or oblique ascension, according to its
circle of position in the nativity, and look afterwards for the longitude corres·
pondent to this sum, in the proper table , to .the ,·ery position of the Sun.
(2) Then you look in the ephemeris of the year of the birth. What is the
day when the Sun will reach that longitude ? This day will be the year of
direction. ·
You calculate now the places of planets for that day and for the same
hour as that of the birth.
(3) You erect for this very day and for the hour (time) of the nativity a
map, in which you insert the planets you calculated before ; this map will be
the theme of rational direction .
(4) You erect then a second map with the same signs and cusps of houses
as that of the nativity, and you insert the planets calculated as above; this
map will be the theme of planetary direction, which will indicate the events of the
year of direction, where the rational theme will mark the details.
I calculate for each of these maps the position of the part of fortune,
that, established by this means, has a real influence, and shows the
pecuniary position of the native.
I should be very grateful to "Raphael " to let me know the results he
will have obtained with this method.
JULEVNO.
Bnswersto <torresponbents.
AsHER.-At birth, W in nt a watery sign, 8 2f.in cy, a fiery. At the time
of the accident cf a fiery planet, o M.C. and the processed Ascen-
dant Q Wdenoting the sudden nature of the event. No, the natures of
the planets must always be considered for future events.
McHDI HASAN(Lucknow).-Kindly send your full address so that we may
write you . We shall be pleased to have the Arabic Astrology con-
tribution promised for insertion .
T. B. D1xoN and Miss 0ETTL .-" Sepharial" desires us to say he is unable
to undertake any private astrological work.
ttbe
Bstrologers' Maga3ine. [ COPYRIGHT].
No. 45. ';~: :: * APRIL, 1894. * Price 4d. Post free 4}d.
ttbe boroscope of Bnnie :JSesant.
T HE subject of this delineation was born on the 1st of October,

1847, at 5h. 24m. p.m., "within the sound of Bow Bells." The
Right Ascension of the meridian of London at that time was
18h. 2m. 45s., which corresponds to the sign Capricornus o0 381• The
sign Aries 1° 40 1 was rising when the birth took place.
The following is the figure of the heavens for the moment of birth:-
ANNIE BESANT.
Oct. 1st, 1847, at 5h. 24m. 22s. p.m.
LONDON.
NAVAMSAS.
Ase.
0
'Y'
1
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? = ~
-
end. 2+
7 = n.Jl
1
D = ~ d' = ~ w st end.
The general signification of the second degree of Aries is given as
follows:-
" A man, stariding, armed with sword and spear ; richly dressed in
scarlet and purple, with jewelled clasps and helmet of fine brass or gold-
apparently prepared for battle and confident of victory. It denotes a proud,
warlike nature, with much self-reliance and confidence in his own powers.
One who will have few friends and will be very independent in his way of
living; at all times willing to assert his opinions and to evidence his powers.
A nature somewhat fond of display."
J
194 THE HOROSCOPE OF ANNIE BESANT.
This, while touching some of the leading elements of our subject's

character, nevertheless needs ample modification in some particulars,
evident to those who have the honour of her friendship. The required
adjustment is evident as soon as we turn to a more critical and detailed
view of the horoscope itself.
In the Celestial Mirror of Johannes Angelus, translated originally
from the Greek, and having its origin in Egypt, a very different
symbol is given for the second degree of Aries. It is as follows :-
" In the second degree of Aries there ascends a man having a head like
a dog, stretching out his right hand towards the skies, and holding a staff in
his left hand."
It is the figure of the Egyptian Anubis, "the Awakener." He it
was who called forth the souls of the dead and led them to the Hall
of Justice where they were weighed.
The general signification of the first decanate of Aries, to which
this degree belongs, is "firmness of character, contempt for obstacles,
dignity"; characteristics which enter very fully into the complex of
Annie Besant's nature. The decanate is variously represented by the
astrologers of the East and West. Varaha Mihira represents it by
" a man with red eyes, girt round the waist with a white cloth ; of a
black complexion, as formidable as able to protect, holds a raised
battle-axe." In the description given by Angelus in the 16th century,
it is thus portrayed : "a valiant man armed, holding out a falchion
in his right hand." Boldness and fortitude are the characteristics
of this decanate, so eminently under the influence of the planet Mars.
The general signification of the sign Aries is as follows :-
" It renders the person born under its influence straightforward
ingenious, frank, disposed to leadership and command, enterprising and
industrious, courting difficulties with a view to conquest, generous even to
extravagance, determined, aspiring, active, manly, enthusiastic in religion
and politics; subtle, combative, and often bigoted, though, generally
speaking, progressive in his tendencies ; liable to change in views and
objects, but at all times enthusiastic in the pursuit of a prevailing idea.
The tastes are disposed to be fastidious in many things. The native will
desire to shine, to gain honours and prominence, but will have difficulties,
equal only to his own courage and determination. . . . . The powers of
a person born under Aries are more versatile than profound, and he is more
successful in executive than mental work, more capable of command than
organization. Often a strong reformer, but more destructive of existing
orders than constructive of new ones. The temper is quick, vivacious,
fretful, and capricious. Eloquence of a declamatory and sometimes of a
more violent kind, is given by this sign. 'Where there is much smoke the
fire burns long'; but here it is all flame, and the anger of the Aries man is a
thing of the hour only. Quick to anger, but soon pacified, the native does
not bear long resentment. He gains by marriage, but will have difficulties
in monetary affairs through a female; may be a legal suit. In business
matters generally he will be successful. He is likely to be an only child, or
THE HOROSCOPE OF ANNiE BESANT. 195
to become such by the death of a younger brother or sister. In early life he
will have difficulties in connection with his profession or business affairs;
disputes in the family, and if the Sun be below the earth he will lose his
father early. Journeys will be caused by family matters or by reason of
disputes and enmities. He will be disposed to ballooning or climbing of high
mountains. . . . . In the married state there will be strife, and danger
of divorce or separation. The sign gives few or no children, but should any
live they will rise to good position and receive honours. The native is likely
to marry early, and there will be disaffection and inconstancy as a
consequence.
"The maladies to which Aries predisposes are intestinal disorders,
inflammation, cholera, accidents to the head and eyes.
" The native will travel by sea, and will probably make discoveries and
become noted for his explorations.
"The profession will be of a creditable and elevated kind, but will afford
many difficulties and will be subject to changes and reversals. Some strife
in connection with the occupation is shown, and jealousy consequent upon
the office held by the native is almost certain. . . . . Friends will cause
success in the profession, and if the Sun be above the earth, the native will
rise to eminence through his supporters. Friends will be numerous and
steadfast, but feminine influence must be carefully watched, or treachery will
cause trouble. There will be many enemies and many causes for jealousy
and strife, but such will not last long."
Such, in brief, are the effects of the sign Aries, when ruling the
horoscope, by being in the Ascendant at birth; and we venture to think
that, making the necessary changes in deference to the sex, this general
delineation-written several years ago and without reference to any
individual, but merely as a type of the Aries person-fits the present
case very fairly.
But the individuality is brouhgt out when we consider more closely
the affections of the planets in the horoscope of the native. And first
we may consider the influence of the planets in the several Houses of
the horoscope.
Uran us in the first house confers extreme independence of mind
upon the native. It gives eccentricity, love of the marvellous, desire
for strange sights, curious knowledge, &c. It renders the individual
romantic, wayward, disposed to self-assertion, and liable to be estranged
from the family circle and relatives. A cosmopolitan by nature.
Mars on the cusp of the second house indicates a liberal nature,
inclining to extravagance, hardly knowing the value of money except
as an immediate means to an end in view. Money slips through the
fingers. Such position of Mars indicates large earnings, but little
likelihood of a reserve fund. The native lives close to the income.
The Moon in the fourth house denotes many changes of residence,
an unsettled life; much intercourse with the people of the native town ;
popularity, with a reversal at the end of life; voyages, especially in the
latter half of the life ; close sympathy for the mother ; inheritance.
196 THE HOROSCOPI;: OF' ANNIE BESANT.
Jupiter on the cusp of the fifth house gives advantageous specula-

tions ; temperate pleasures; dutiful children to whom honours will come.
The Sun, Venus and Mercury, forming a satellitum in the seventh
house, indicate many open enemies, public disputes, legal affairs which
will c'ause much trouble; complications in partnerships, contracts, and
business relations; troubles in the married life.
Saturn in the twelfth house denotes troubles through relatives ;
secret enemies among women; some privations m early life, and
dangers through water, and large quadrupeds.
To be more particular we should need to t~ke into account all the
various affections of these planets; their aspects to one another, their
dignity or otherwise in the horoscope, the signs they occupy, &c.
Thus Mars, in the second house, although retrograde, is extremely
well aspected by the Moon and Jupiter, and free from affliction, showing
great earning capacity, but inability to amass wealth.
The remarkable features in the present horoscope are the presence
of no less than six of the eight planets in cardinal signs, and the
presence of cardinal signs on the angles of the figure. The latter
circumstance confers upon the subject a reputation which will outlast
life ; a fame which will be widespread in proportion to the concurrence
of other significations in the horoscope. And in this case we find the
circumstance amply confirmed by the singular feature first mentioned.
The majority of the planets being in cardinal signs denotes activity,
aptitude, business capacity for the foremost order, nimbleness, ambition;
perseverance. It gives a tendency to reforms and active adminis-
trations ; makes the native fond of politics, foremost in his village,
town, or even country, in social affairs and matters relating to the
~overnment of the people. It gives great executive ability ; the power
to overcome obstacles and to cut out a line of life for oneself; courting
responsibility, active in the pursuit of one's objects, capable of command
and leadership; yet often impetuous, forcing one's own way regardless
of existing law and order; quick to anger, but soon pacified; eager in
intellect, acute in perception, apprehensive ; fond of debate.
The cardinal signs produce the most active workers of the world,
the best business men, and the most useful persons in the executive
departments of social life.
Three planets are in aerial signs and three in watery signs, hence
the native lives equally in the mental and emotional aspects of qer
nature. The physical and purely spiritual are subordinate.
If enquiry be made as to the astrological cause of Annie Besant's
oratorical powers; it will be seen that Mercury is in Libra, a "sign of
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voice " as we technically term it, and Venus, the ruler of the second
house (governing language), is conjoined to Mercury, which confers
singular eloquence and poesy of expression.
We may now glance at a few of the events of life and show their
corresponding astrological indications. At five years of age, Annie
Besant lost her father. The premature death of the parent is shown
by the affiiction of Sun by Uranus, and the Moon in the fourth house,
affiicted by Uranus, Sun, Venui,, and Mercury. At the fifth day after
birth the Sun had .reached the exact square aspect of the Moon, and
Uranus by oblique ascension had come to the ascending horizon, by
taking a degree of meridian passage for every year of life. The Moon
by direction was opposed to Saturn in the twelfth house (the house of
affiiction ).
At twenty years and two months of age marriage took place. The
radical significations are by no means good; but, on the contrary,
although the Sun applies to the conjunction of Venus, yet that planet
is retrograde and affiicted by the Moon, Jupiter, and Uranus. The
latter planet when affiicting the Sun in a female, or the Moon in a male
nativity, always brings about separation by the death of the partner, or
legal suit. It is a terrible planet for bringing about estrangements, and
it is powerful in this nativity. At the time of marriage the Sun had
reached the parallel declination of Saturn, an evil portent, and one of a
lasting nature. But the Moon was in Pisces in good aspect to Mars,
Jupiter, and Mercury, and so the marriage took place. The signs of an
early marriage in the nativity are: Mars in good aspect to Moon and
Jupiter, and unaffiicted; the Sun going to a conjunction with Venus,
ruler of the seventh ' house (that of marriage), and in the seventh. The
planet Venus in the sign Libra will describe the marriage partner in
this case, according to the rules of the art, as a man of " full vital
temperament, florid complexion, and blue eyes.
Two children were born from this marriage: Digby, the son, when
the Moon was opposed to the place of the Sun at birth, at twenty-one
years and three months of the mother's age; and Mabel, the daughter,
when the Moon was in opposition to the place of the Sun by progres-
sive direction, at twenty -two years and ten months of age. These
children, born under such conditions, were destined to bring trouble
into the mother's life, unconscious agents though they were. From
the 21st to the 26th years of life, Venus, being retrograde, was pro-
gressing over the opposition of the Ascendant, in the second degree of
Libra . At the time of her mother's death, the Ascendant in Annie
Besant's horoscope was directed to a semi-square aspect of the Moon.
Other evil influences were also in play at that period of her life.
J2
198 THE HOROSCOPE OF ANNIE BESANT.
During the period at which the famous Knowlton Pamphlet Case

was in process, the Moon was progressing from the fourth to the
fourteenth degree of the sign Leo, meeting at the outset an evil aspect
of the Sun and Mars in Scorpio and Taurus respectively, the Sun being
close to an opposition of Mars on the twenty-ninth and thirtieth days
after the birth, corresponding to the same years of life. In May, 1889,
when Annie Besant joined the Theosophical Society, the Sun was
about to form a trine (fortunate) aspect of Jupiter, and Venus had pro-
gressed to a conjunction with the Sun's place at birth, Mercury being
on the cusp of the ninth house (religion) and in sextile (good) aspect to
Venus' place at birth. The Moon had reached a conjunction with the
mid-heaven, placing her reputation at this time very much in the hands
of the public (represented by the Moon). It is stated to produce ·
" changes, attended with honour or the reverse, according to the solar
influences in force at the time (in this case they were good, as we have
seen); the period is restless and unsettled. It gives benefits and
honours from females." From the present time till the close of
the century, a series of evil primary directions are formed in the
horoscope, and it is to be hoped that the effects signified thereby-
severe illness, loss of friends, changes in life, severed links, home
troubles and losses-will lose some of their keen edge when working
out their destined purpose in a life already charged with so much sorrow
and hardship.
Annie Besant will live to her sixtieth year, but will not reach her
sixtieth birthday, for in March, 1907 the Sun, in the eighth house, meets
the square aspect of Saturn by direction, and the Moon reaches an
equal degree of the sign Virgo, thus forming an evil aspect to both the
Sun and Saturn from the sixth house. The three most evil houses-
sixth, eighth, and twelfth-conspire to the same effect ; and in March,
1907, Saturn will be transiting the place it held at birth. The Full
Moon at the end of February, 1907, will fall in the same fatal degree of
the opposite sign, Virgo, and in the sixth house, on the place of the
Moon by direction. The lungs and abdominal viscera will both be
affected. The voice, which has been uplifted in the cause of so many
suffering fellow-creatures, will not have the power to plead its own,
even if it would. The Annie Besant of our sketch will pass away, but
the memory of a noble soul will remain in the hearts of the people, and,
as we have said, her name will endure.
It may be asked if there are similar signs of sympathy between this
horoscope and that of H. P. Blavatsky, as were seen to exist in the
case of Colonel Olcott. To this we can answer, yes. If reference be
made to the horoscope of H. P. B., it will be seen that the Ascendant
is in close conjunction with the Moon in the present case and near to
the place of Jupiter; while at the same time the Sun in the latter is on
the place of the Moon in H.P. B.'s horoscope, a sure sign of sympathy
between persons who are destined to meet one another. There are
other indications of minor nature, but the.Ascendant and the Luminaries
are chiefly considered, and when in conjunction or good aspect are
productive of the closest friendship between those concerned.
SEPHARIAL.
NoTE.--,-As a curious coincidence it is to be noticed that H. P. Blavatsky
sailed for India in the forty·seventh year of her age, and occupied herself with
the formation of Theosophical centres in various parts of the Peninsula ; and
now in the forty-seventh year of Annie Besant's age, we find her lately
arrived in India and actively engaged in the same work.
H. P. Blavatsky died in her sixtieth year of life, and the same year in the
case of Annie Besant has already been indicated as fatal.-S.
Mrs. Besant's horoscope was first published in the Weekly Sun newspaper
as a preface to her autobiography. Her time of birth was there given as
5.43 p.m. The fact that the time was given so closely to the minute, and not
merely to the hour or the nearest division of the hour, made me suspect that
it was not her own estimate, but that it had been subjected to the ordeal of
rectification by some astrologer . On enquiry, Mrs. Besant informed me that
the figure published in the Weekly Su11 was calculated by an American
astrologer. She could not obtain access to the family Bible in which the
time was recorded, but it was somewhere between 5 and 5.45 p.m. · She
thought the true time was about 5 . 20 p.m., but she could not remember for
certain, and it might lie anywhere between the limits mentioned. The
American astrologer, starting with this estimate, rectified it to 5.43 p.m., but
he made the mistake of taking the 9th of January for the epoch instead of the
8th. It will be seen that "Sepharial," who carefully compared the directions
to the angles with the events of Mrs. Besant 's life, has rectified it to 5.24 p.m.,
and this accords so closely with Mrs. Besant's recollection of 5.20 p.m . that it
is much the more reliable figure of the two.-LEo.
3nfantile roortalitl?.
(Summary Continued.)
BY "ALAN LEO."
T HE case of Rob on page u2 was of special interest to me.

father at the time of Rob's birth was in my employ.
The
I had
carefully noted the time of birth, and did not consider that the child
would live; but at that time I could not say when it would die. Now,
here the only thing you can attribute to the Dis her Semi-square to
Saturn, but many astrologers would say that the sextile to Mars would
counteract it. Now, the influence that really did kill I pointed out on
page 112. The Ascendant by process is Semi-squan Jupiter, lord of the
eighth, and also exact opposition to Uranus.
In the next case, T. C. has some heavy afflictions, 0 o '?, i) d W;

but when will T. C. die-if you decide that he cannot pull through the
affliction of aspect and position ? Surely not when the Moon reaches
3° Sl 501, which it does at the time of death; the boy lives eighteen
months within a few days, the Sun has passed the Square of Saturn,
and the Moon has no aspect. But the processedAscmdant is exactly
oppositionthe midway poi11tbetwem D, ruler oft~ eighth, a11dUranus.
Emma J. R. lived six months within a few days. The progressive
Moon does not appear to force any of the radical afflictions into opera·
tion. She has progressed to 6° ,E, but the processedAscendant is
10° nx 30', exactly oppositionto the midway poi11tbetwun 0 a11dD pro-
gressive. It is the first affliction the Ascendant arrives at. Not only are
five planets retrograde, but the radical figure is very weak-Jupiter,
lord of the eighth, is square Saturn, and conjunction Uranus, the ruler
of the Ascendant, is in opposition to Mars.
Female born 6 a.m., April 25th, 1887; died 7.30 p.m., Septem-
ber 17th, 1892. This child died at jive years and jive mo11tlisin the
hospital. The twelfth house is well tenanted, and Mars, part ruler of
the sixth in the twelfth, would denote this. At the time of death the D
is 6° St,, squaring the midway point between the radical and progressive
place of the Sun and Mars. Now the processed map is very
interesting. m 15° ascends at time of death; n, the ascending sign at
birth, is on the cusp of the eighth; and Jupiter, lord of the radical
eighth, falls in the twelfth (hospitals) in exact sesquiquadrate to the
degree of the processed eighth ; and, if you believe in the cusp of the
fourth being the magnetic pole, then here you have Saturn sesqui-
quadrate the exact degree, extracting all the magnetism from the
physical framework. But I will have more to say on this point later.
The next case is very clear, the processed Ascendant is exact Square
Jupiter, ruler of the eighth house. Now, I should very much like to hear
from those supporters of the Hylegiacal places what direction they
would expect to kill in this case, for here clearly enough the Moon is
Hyleg, and by none of their rules can they account for death taking
place when it does. My advice is-Note well the lord of the eighth, and
take no heed of Hylegiacal places while their supportersare so vague.
CONCLUDING REMARKS,
Now we have seen by the majority of the foregoing cases that the
Moon has not the power to point accurately to the time of an infant's
death . What inference, then, can we draw from this apparently strange
fact? Reviewing each case singly, we find that some aspect of a
malefic nature to the Ascendant by process is near enough to predict
the death time, if the ruler of the eighth denotes that the child cannot
INFANTILE MORTALITY, 201
live. .This warrants us in saying that the processsystem is the correct

method of predicting the terminus vitre of infants, and if ·we now
examine the method closely, we shall, I think, discover the reason why
this is so. The subject is rather a complicated one to handle, so I will
try and make it as simple as possible.
The twelve signs of the Zodiac have always been considered to
represent the physical framework of man, and as he stands upright witli
arms outstretched he represents the + symbol of the Cross ;· as-the
l) is the symbol of the Soul of Mankind, so the + is a:-symbol of
t"he body. Now, whether infants prior to their seventh year of life
possess a soul or not, I do not feel inclined for the moment to argue,
but "Leo" mentions on page 226, vol iii., that before this age there
is no moral responsibility, becausethe link betweenthe body and the Ego is
not sufficiently close. Assuming that previous to their seventh year
infants do not possess a strong hold upon what is called their soul, it
would be only natural for us to look to physical arrangements to affect
. physical things, and thus aspects from the malefics, or lord of the
eighth, to the vital parts of the physical framework would -produce
fatal results, it would appear feasible that if the vitality is good, the·+ :
will hold together much longer than if the vitality is low. But how
are we to judge the strength of the vitality? \Ve will suppose
this framework to be a vessel, and the planets for the time l;ieing:
as liquids or gases of various strength, then we shall only require to
know the exact strength of each planet to enable us to obtain a correct.
judgment. But, first, let us look at "{'the signs for the nature of the-·
framework. The Cardinal Signs CR;+ 11:5'govern the head, stomach,
~ ~
ovaries, veins, and liver. The Fixed Signs st+= the throat, heart,
11l II
generative and excretory system, and blood. The Common Signs llJZ+
,€-
the lungs, bowels, and nervous system. Now the planets must t be
taken separately.· Uranus dominates the nervous system, and in
reg~rd to the Physical body, he is the greatest malefic, and his influence
over the human system, and affairs generally, until understood, is the:
most disastrous in its results, and nearly all his complaints at the
present stage of our existence are incurable, unless they have ·a·
peculiar treatment, and to the physical world he is undoubtedly bottled
up gunpowder, his adverse aspects always affect the blood, and he
invariably produces accidents and sudden death. Saturn is just the
reverse in his influence; he is a cold and contracting planet, always
lowering the temperature, warping and retarding the growth of the
body, and as heat is the most needed for growth to the +, Saturn
afflicted may be considered a decided malefic. Jupiter is the medium,
or balance, · between these two malefics on the physical plane~
]3
202 MR. GLADSTONE'S DIRECTIONS.
W ? and 21-when heavily afflicted are opposed in every way to the

purely physical body, and until that body is illuminated with the D to
control it, they play a prominent part in the departure of our infants.
Jupiter is said to have chief rule over the liver, and also has a great deal
to do with the blood, and, if I may add my private opinion, I would say
the vitality also, for he enriches or deteriorates the blood according to
his aspects and positions, as it flows from the heart.
Now, the next three are cJ, ? , and ~. Mars, giver of heat and
force, has certainly a very great deal to do with the vitality, and if
we watch our boys grow into youth, we shall not fail to be convinced
of this fact when we see the martial element in them. The head and
generative organs are governed by Mars, and our first observation when
judging if the infant will live or die should be to note the position and
aspect of this planet, also his relationship to his greatest enemy Saturn,
for heat and force will not be strong when Saturn is afflicting this planet.
Venus, who governs the seed, I do not consider has any power to
kill; her mission is to nourish and love-not to kill-and finally
Mercury may be considered the medium, or balance, between these two,
and he has the least power in himself to kill, for his mission is to rule
the brain and intellect, but his virtue depends entirely upon his major
aspects, as we teach elsewhere. I consider him a Satellite of the Sun.
Now, if you will consider the 0 purely as a symbol of the male, and
the D as a symbol of the female, the former the positive and electric
principle, and the later the negative and magnetic, you will clearly
understand what I shall say in the next number.
mr. Glabstone'slDirections.
T HE events of the last month or two have so aptly illustrated the
astral influences now at work in Mr. \V. E. Gladstone's
horoscope that it will probably be of interest if I continue the subject
by examining the New Moons and Eclipses of the present year as they
affect the late Premier.
There are two principal points of danger in the figure (which is to
be found on page 107, vol. iii.), firstly, the Moon (at 1° ~), and
secondly, the middle of the four fixed signs. The Moon is at a dangerous
point, because the primary direction of the Sun to the opposition of the
Moon is still in force, as has already been explained ; and the middle
of the fixed signs is dangerous because W and cJ at birth were in
square and parallel from signs l11.and~. and the progressed Moon is
now entering the sign l11.and approaching the radical W.
Therefore any lunation, eclipse, or transit, at the beginning of
cardinal signs, or in tlie middle of fixed signs, will be fatal. This is all
MR, GLADSTONE'S DIRECTIONS, 203
the more so since the Queen has now in force the direction of the Sun
to the opposition of Jupiter from the middle of fixed signs.
We have already had one illustration of the truth of this. The
February lunation fell in the middle of Aquarius, near Mr. Gladstone's
Mars, and in square to his Uranus. I saw in advance that this was
bound to be a critical month for the Premier, but as I knew the
lunation would be nearly over before my remarks could be published, I
omitted all reference to it, an omission for which I am now sorry.
During that lunation we had, first, the rumours as to Mr.
Gladstone's impending resignation, then the wrangle with the House
of Lords over the Employers' Liability Bill and the Parish Councils
Bill, and finally the definite announcement of his resignation at the
beginning of March, when the Moon was in conjunction with Mars on
his Ascendant,
Here are the progressed places of the planets for his birthday next
December:-
0 2 'Y' 52 J 24 'Y' 46 D 13 rn.32 J;, 15 I 19 ~
'? 5 'Y' 3 2.(. 29 'Y' 31 1i'J13 rtL 44 ~ ~ 6 * 53
March 7.-New Moon at 17 *, o l;, and '? Rad.
March 21.-Eclipse of the Moon at 1 :':!e, Very unfavorable.
April 6.-Solar Eclipse at 17 'Y', Too near the radical Jupiter to
do harm, I think.
May 5.-Lunation at 15 ~. Unfavorable.
June 3.-Lunation at 13 n. Too close to the opposition of Saturn
to be pleasant.
July 3.-Lunation at 11 ®· 8 0 ~.
August 1.-Lunation at 9 S\,, D DP. and near o W ~.
August 30.-Lunation at 8 ~· Favorable, b. Ascendant.
September 15.-Lunar eclipse at 15 *.
September 29.-Solar eclipse at 6 =-:!e1 near radical Moon. Very
unfavorable.
October 28.-Lunation at 5 rt!., near W~.
November 27.-Lunation at 5 I, near l;, ~.
December 27.-Lunation at 5 lrj', near radical Sun.
The principal transits during the year are Mars over the Sun and
Ascendant, end of February; Mars over his radical place, latter part of
April; Mars over the opposition of the Moon, end of June and
beginning of July; and Jupiter, during the latter part of the year, to
the square and opposition of Sun and Moon.
It will be seen from this that very few of the lunations during the
year are free from misfortune for Mr. Gladstone. The worst days will
be those when the Sun and Moon pass the opposition of important
points in the radix, especially from the middle of fixed signs and the
beginning of cardinal signs ..
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~be boroscopeof mr. J.Dtnltar
:fSalwant
Patwarbban.
(See Page 177.)
A DELINEATION BY HIS FRIEND, J. T . CHITNIS.
M R. PATW ARD HAN has the lady of the Ascendant ? . She

is again the lord of the eighth house in d with ~ , a part
·ruler of the eighth house. In this instance the Ascendant, as well as
the eighth house, is governed by one planet alone, and hence the two
dignities of the houses have distinct claims upon the planet ? , i.e., £
has to safeguard the Ascendant, consequently the health, and has to
support likewise the cause of death, which are really qualities of the
opposite nature . In this instance it appears more reasonable to take
~ to repr-esent death either separately or in connection with ? .
Thus the lady of the Ascendant and lords of the eighth house,
? and ~ , are in the sixth house of the figure, a house of sickness,
where the lord of the Ascendant and lords of the death house are
posited. The above combination of the lord of the Ascendant with the
lords of. the sixth, eighth, and twelfth in any of these houses is a
certain testimony, according to the Hindu works on Astrology, of a
short life. A short life, according to various authorities on astral
subjects, .ends generally at thirty or thereabouts . Middle life extends
to seventy years, and a long life to, 100 or 125 years, according to the
strength of the planets and their yogas . Mr. Patwardhan has the 0
._(the Atmakarak-life giver) in ,( , a watery sign, where much of the
power of the heat is lost. · The--0, a planet of heat, is opposed by 17,
a planet of cold nature ; }), who governs the mind, is squared by c! ,
}) is in 'Y', a house of c! • The o aspect between c! and }) would
greatly destroy the heat. ~ , the greater benefic, who is the lord of
the sixth house, is in the twelfth house detrimented, and in d with 17
the greater malefic . ~, the lord of the sixth , is in the house of ~ . ;
~ , the lord of the twelfth house, is in the sixth house. Thus we have
here mutual reception of ~ and !,! by signs and houses. The whole
of the combination is certainly unfavorable for a long life.
Uranus unfortunately squares ? , and ~ is an additional testimony
in favour of the death, as !,! is a convertible planet by nature, and
being the lord of the eighth and squared by W, would naturally
inherit the malefic nature of W when ·!,! in his progressional course
will not have · d with ? , the lady of the Ascendant.
1'HE HOROSCOPE OF MR. DINKAR HALWANT PATWARlJHAN. '205
In the Prince of Wales's nati"ity, Mr. Patwardhan has observed

the Atmakarak (the 0) in ltl, a watery sign, and the 0 supported by J',
a planet of heat. He has particularly noticed the thirtieth year of the
Prince, when he was taken seriously ill under the cyclic direction
system. The Atmakarak (the 0 ), who at birth is deprived of his
heating actions, and who is solely supported by J' for the sustenance
of the life er for keeping the life flame burning, by progress falls in
n very near the cusp of the sixth house, a house of sickness, while J' ,
a planet of heat, who feeds the solar furnace in a watery sign, falls
in q;;, a watery sign, and thus the heating actions of J' are greatly
stopped to regulate the functions of the human frame and of the 0 (the
Atmakarak). It was fortunate for the Prince that he has lord of the
Ascendant ~ of his sign in the Ascendant to avert the death. Under
the cyclic direction system ~ was in the cyclic Ascendant and ~ in
. t in the seventh of the year, and in an angle unafflicted. The Royal
Prince has ~ in the house of ~, and in the cyclic year ~ , the lord of
the Ascendant of the cyclic year was again in t , a house of ~, and
hence the detriments of ~ and ~ by progress caused a regular combat
over the death, and ~, the life supporter, gained in the end
supremacy over the death, although debilited in his progres-
sional course.
In the case of Mr. Patwardhan the 0 (the Atmakarak) is in a watery
sign *, supported by J' by his * aspect, like the Prince. Mr.
Patwardhan has always suffered in health whenever the planet J' was
in a watery sign in his progressional course. At the beginning
of this year the 0 by progress passes through his fall ~, and
falls at the end of November in ltl, a watery sign, while J', a planet of
heat, who supports the 0 at birth, by progress falls in tlJt, and thus
supports not the 0 (the Atmakarak), although the * aspect is kept up,
but afflicts the radical position of the 0. Thus the planet J· , the
supporter of the Atma (life), by progress does wrong to the 0.
? who opposes the 0 at birth by progress comes in the Ascendant
( ~ 11°), and thus squares J' radical, a planet of heat. Thus f?, who
opposed the 0 at birth, has opposed J' , the supporter of the 0 .
.Thus the two planets of heat are spoiled by ? , viz., the 0 at birth and
J' in the progressional course.
The thirty-second year of Mr. Padwardhan commences in the
·eighth house. ? and ~ both thus become the lords of the Ascendant.
? is the lord of the radical Ascendant, as well as of the cyclic
Ascendant, opposed by J' , a part ruler of the sixth house, i.e., the
lady of both the Ascendants is afflicted. ~ the part ruler of the
cyclic Ascendant is also the lord of the eighth and twelfth house.
Thus in the cyclic Ascendant we observe the radical lords of the si-xfh
206 THE HOROSCOPE OF MR, DINKAR BALWANT PATWARDHAN,
and twelfth houses, who have mutual detrimental reception, are in d

with each other in the house of death. Thus we notice the lord of the
cyclic Ascendant ( ~ ) is joined by 2(., the lord of the cyclic eighth
house. This combination, as was shewn in the radical figure at the
beginning of this nativity, is unfavorable to the health, but when both
the combinations are considered together we have no reason to await
for an additional evil testimony, The cyclic directions being of the
nature of the radical figure, the work of death was speedily brought about.
The 0 (the Atmakarak) by progress at the beginning of Mr.
Patwardhan's present year falls in the sixth house of the cyclic year.
In the radical figure we observe the 0 (the Atmakarak) is posited in
the sixth house. As may be observed in the Prince's horoscope that
his progressive 0 in the thirtieth year of his life was in the radical
sixth house, so in the case of Mr. Patwardhan the 0 is in radical sixth
house, and the same 0 in his progress falls in »t., a watery sign, and
in the sixth of the cyclic year. Mr. Patwardhan on the 24th of
November (Friday), at 12.30 p.m., was att~cked by his fatal sickness
in the testes as was represented by the house and sign, and the position
of the 0 therein. Mr. Patwardhan has ninth house as the Ascendant
for the month which commences on the 2nd of November and ends on
the 2nd of December. The 0 being in the sixth house of the month,
a house of sickness, the illness commenced in the testes (note, »t. rules
a secret part). Some would say that the 0 is not in the sixth house of
the cyclic year to cause illness there, but the radical position of the 0
and the progressive position of the 0, as well as the nature of the
sign, leads me to suspect that the disease really originated in the secret
part some months before, and which was not observed by the native,
but the medical opinion is that the native was subject to such diseases
some months before the death. Thus ~ , the lord of the ninth
month Ascendant, who is again the lord of the eighth ,(radical) house,
falls in the twelfth house of the month Ascendant, while D, the part
ruler of the ninth month Ascendant, who is in the sixth house of the
figure, and who is opposed by J in his progressional course, falls in
the sixth house (radical). The tenth month of the native commences
on the 2nd of December. The native died on the 2nd of December, at
9.20 p.m., nearly one hour before he would have Qo I 1° to be the
Ascendant for the tenth month, and it is hence we observe the lord of
the monthly eighth, I;,, who opposes the 0 at birth, comes very
powerful in the radical Ascendant, and by squaring J (radical), a
planet of heat, the supporter of the 0 (the Atmakarak) successor in his
malefic effects which the lady of the Ascendants by progress falls in the
monthly eighth house, and in no way supporting the Ascendant. Thus
Mr. Patwardhan, the originator of the cyclic system, . met with .. ~s
THE HOROSCOPE OF MR, DINKAR BALWANT PATWARDHAN 207
death very calmly, and expired precisely at the hour he has foretold to
his relations and friends. He made known his death hour at 8 a.m.
on the 2nd of December, when a hope of his recovery was slightly seen
by his friends and medical attendants. Mr. Patwardhan had suffered
from acute rheumatism for nine days only. His knee and elbow were
much paining him. I subjoin here the horoscope of Mr. Patwardhan's
Son for consideration. It is more advisable . to refer to the last Son of
the native for the death, and in the same manner the horoscope of the
last Daughter would give the accurate date of her Mother's death.
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The periodic places, &c., of the planets are 0 51 n, D 7° ~' 8 5° Qo.

The child lost his mother on the 4th of Jnne, 1892, and the father on the
2nd December, 1893, at 9.20 p.m.
According to the Indian system, the fourth house rules the mother,
J,, lord thereof is detrimented and in the eighth house of the mother.
The Matrukarak (the mother's life giver) Dis also in her fall and 8 by
W. D, the lord of the tenth, is thus afflicted, and the 0, the Petru-
karak (the father's life giver) is in the eighth of the father. D o 0.
The 0 is in *,
a watery sign, and hence loss of heat, while the lord
of the tenth D is besides her fall is 8 by W, and squared by the 0.
The fifth year of the child commences in the fifth house, and the
second house therefore stands as the cyclic tenth house. J , the lord
thereof, by progress falls in Qo 5°, and in the eighth of the cyclic tenth.
D, the radical lord of the tenth, falls in ~, her fall, and in the sixth
of the father ; while the Petrukarak, the 0, who is in a watery sign *,
unsupported by J, a planet of heat, falls in n 5°, i.e., in the eighth
house of the figure, representing the loss of the father to the child.
J , a planet of heat, who is the lord of the cyclic tenth, is in e3, a
watery sign, and consequently unsupporting the heat. ~' the lord of
208 THE HOROSCOPE OF MR, DINKAR BALWANT PATWA~DHAK.
the cyclic tenth, by progress falls in rr , which is the eighth house of

the figure; but cf really, the lord of the cyclic tenth, falls in Qo 5°, and
the lord of the radical tenth falls in 1,,j' 7', thus we notice here the
radical lord of the tenth opposed by cyclic lord of the tenth, and as
these lords, by adding an orb 5°, get approximately to the beginning
of the cusp sufficient for our present purposes, the tenth house really
represents the loss of the father. According to Indian Bha vas, cf and))
would be taken in the tenth and the fourth house respectively. If we
count for the month we get 22nd of November-22nd of December
over the radical tenth house, which is really the month of the
father's death.
Thus the cyclic system-which serves · the purpose. of the solar
revolutions-:-does not allow us to take a sign to represent a year, as we
get our earth exactly the same as at birth, and the figure makes no
alterations in the cusps and interception of signs.
We have received from the author, L. D. Broughton, M.D., a little book

worth reading on Planetary lnfl11e11ce. It contains various essays and articles
of interest to astrologers, as well as several " death figures" for notorious
murders. The price is ten cents, and it is published by the author at 66, West .
Fourth Street, New York.
* * * * *
In the figure for the January lunation, Jupiter was in the seventh house,
signifying peace abroad; but as it was opposed by Uranus, this was mani-
fested only after one or two unpleasant incidents had occurred. There was
a collision between English and French forces in Africa, and there was a
restive disposition shown by the young Khedive of Egypt. The "Board of
Conciliation " came off successfully in the matter of the coal strike, as we
predicted.
* * * * *
The square of Uranus to the luminaries at the February lunation
coincided with several anarchist outbreaks on the Continent. It is note-
worthy that in that figure the Moon ruled the tenth and the Sun the eleventh,
showing that these houses would suffer. In England, there was one explosion
on February 15th, when a French anarchist blew himself to pieces in
Greenwich Park shortly before sunset. The Moon was well aspected on that
day. If he had waited until the 16th, when it was in opposition to Mars, he
would probably have blown up others beside himself. In England, the
affliction of the Sun, Moon, tenth, and eleventh, coincided with the Commons
and Lords being at loggerheads. After two Bills have been tossed to and fro
several times between the two Houses, the Employers' Liability Bill was
abandoned by the Government, and the Parish Councils Bill got through
somehow.
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ltbe Prince of 'Wlales'J.Dtrecttons.
The Prince's Post-Natal directions for the immediate future are as

follows:-
PRIMARY, SECONDARY.
D RD ~ P. 1893. ))P.~'?R April, 1894.

0P. Par. !i! P. 1894. ~ \1P.
" May, 1894.
Par. 2f.R 1895. D \1 R
" "
L ~ R 1895. ~ 2f.P. = July, 1894.
" "
L J'P. = 1896. Q !i! R = Aug. 1894.
" "
Par.? 1898. ~ '?P. Sept. 1894.
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" Par. !i! R = Oct.
DR o !i! P. = 1898. 1894.
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0P.c5 J' R 1899. ~0P.
" Jan. 1895.
,, Par. W
Par. DR Feb. 1895.
" May, 1895.
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" June, 1895.
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By comparing this with his horoscope of birth, it will be seen that the
progressed 0 (day for a year) is separating from the conjunction of the
Radical Saturn and applying to that of the Radical Mars. The critical
point between the Radical Saturn and Mars is at 7° ],j> 41', and the
progressed 0 reached this point at the death of Prince Albert Victor
and the Duke of Clarence. Since that time the 0 has been applying
to the conjunction of Mars, which dangerous position will be reached
in 1899. But, in the meantime, the 0 passes the parallels of Jupiter
and Venus, which, under suitable secondaries, should bring a
prosperous period to the Prince. The present year seems to be
fortunate on the whole, but it is interesting to notice that a very bad
period commences at the latter part of next year. The Prince's
directions quite accord with those of the Queen and Mr. Gladstone in
foreshadowing trouble, changes, and events of national importance. It
seems as if his elevation to the Throne were at hand at the end of 1895
or early in 1896, and the Prince himself will not escape illness, and
family and national loss under the severe directions which will follow.
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P ROFESSOR TYNDALL died by poison at Haslemere on the 4th

December, 1893. He had suffered from sleeplessness for many
year s, and was in the habit of taking Syrup of Chloral to produce sleep.
Ev ery oth er morning he took a dose of Epsom Salts, which was
measured out and given to him by his wife. On the morning of his
death, she gave him what she believed to be his usual dose of Epsom
Salts and he swallowed it, when she discovered that she had made a
mistake and had given him Syrup of Chloral-an overdose. The
quantity taken would prob ably not have killed a strong man; in full
health ; but Professor Tynd all had suffered from inflammation of the
hmgs, and this made his breathing bad. Medical aid was called in and
every possible means used, but he died the same evening at 6.30 p.m.
The above figure is drawn for the time when he drank the poison.
The positions in the figure are remarkably malefic; indeed , it would not
be easy to draw a figur e with fewer good positi ons, for they are here
almost redu ced to a minimum. Saturn is exactly culminatin g, and the
Moon is separating from one malefic and applying to two others , and
entirely devoid of good aspects. The rulers of the Ascendant and
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TERMINUS VITA':.-PROFF.SSOR TYNDALL, 2II
Descendant, signifying the deceased and his wife, are in opposition and
both retrograde, showingevil wrought for the one (unintentionally) by.
the hand of the other; moreover, both planets are in earthquake
signs, signs of sudden disaster ; and each has only one good aspect, that
from Venus, which planet may perhaps show the non-criminal nature
of the event. The Sun is rising in exact opp::isition to the mysterious
Neptune setting, whose influence is therefore undoubtedly evil here
whatever it may be elsewhere, and is exerted upon the sign governing
the lungs, in accordance with which fact we find that the difficulty
in breathing was one cause of death.
Saturn, I should imagine, will govern dangerous narcotics, and here
we have it afflicting the Moon in the mid-heaven, the latter ruling the
eighth sign of the figure.
Mars, Uran us, and Mercury are evilly placed in the twelfth sign
(not house) of the figure Scorpio, the natural eighth house of the
zodiac, the zodiacal death sign : Sagittarius, rising with the Sun in
it, gives not an inapt description of Professor Tyndall ; and, heing the
ninth sign of the zodiac, points out a man whose activities came largely
under that house.
If the. figure is examined by Navamsas (for Table of which see
Part II. of Notes on Hindu Astrology) one or two curious points are
brought out. Jupiter and Mercury are the lords of the first and
seventh signs, but as a Virgo Navamsa rises and a Pisces Navamsa
sets, the same two planets are again the lords by Navamsa as they were
by sign. Moreover, at the moment of death, 8.30 p.m., 19° !ID was
rising, which is a Sagittarius Navamsa, so that Jupiter and Mercury
are brought here as lords of the angles again.
Then if the planets are examined, it will be found that five of them
are weak by Navamsa; 0 in !ID, ~ in*• S' in llJt, o' in ~, and
? in 'Y'. This is a curious coincidence when taken in conjunction with
the very malefic positions in the figure. Also note that three of the
planets are in end Navamsas.
For his sleeplessness, there is Mercury and the Moon both afflicted,
while the rising Navamsa, Virgo, governs the bowels, influenced also
by Mercury in opposition to the lord of the Ascendant from Scorpio;
and the medicine he thought he was taking was intended for the bowels.
The three malefics are in lunar Horas, which is not their best
position;
Examined by Dwadasamsas, the Ascendant and Saturn are found to
be in Gemini Dwadasamsas, signifying the lungs and the wife (because
Gemini is on the seventh house); and the Moon and Mercury are both
afflicted in Virgo Dwadasamsas, the bowels.
munbane Bstrolog~.
A T the Neomenia on the 6th instant, the conjoined luminaries are

in the second house, applying to the opposition of Saturn. Both
the Sun and Saturn are in the signs of their exaltation, hence the
forthcoming Budget will have some surprises for the quidnuncs. It is
an Ecliptic New Moon, and will not oe visible in England. From the
position of Saturn, I opine there will be some notable elevations to the
peerage, and deaths amongst our legislators and scientists. Jupiter
having entered Gemini will bring some benefits on third house
matters ; but as he and the luminaries are in close semi-square, some
departmental trouble will arise. Mars is in semi-square to Mercury
from the twelfth to the Ascendant ; some daring robberies will take
place, and an excess of crime will prevail. Mars is also applying to the
square of Uranus in the house of death ; there will be some peculiar
ones, and fires and explosions will be serious.
St. Petersburg will have an eventful month, for the Red Planet
has entered the ruling sign of the country. Warlike talk is likely, and
the Foreign Office has a busy time. The prisons or hospitals will be
heavily tenanted, and the health of the community far from good.
New York has Saturn in M.C., Neptune in the seventh, and
the conjoined lights in the fourth. These positions will produce an
eventful month-heavy failures, deaths of prominent men, and a general
unsettled state.
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tbe $tut)ents' ¢orner.
BY "RAPHAEL,"
I N last month's "Corner," I explained the method of erecting a map

in Northern Latitudes, and commenced the article with a stupid
grammaticalerror in the first line.
I will now explain how Tables of Houses for North Latitudes will
answer for. South Latitudes. The difference is this-That signs of
short ascen.sion in N. Latitude are signs of long ascension in S. Latitude,
and vice versa. Therefore, in adapting a Table of Houses to S. Latitude,
we must use the same signs, but the oppositedegrees. The easiest way,
however, is to add twelve hours to your time, and use the opposite signs.
Suppose, by way of example, that I require a map for April 1st,
1894, 7 p.m., for Latitude 51° 32' South, and Longitude 3 hours East
of Greenwich. I proceed thus-
H. M. S.
Sidereal time, April 1st, 1894 o 39 19
Add time from Noon 7 0 0
Correction for seven hours 0 I IO
7 40 29
Add for South Latitude - 12 0 0
19 40 29
I now turn to the Table of Houses for London, which is 51° 32' N.
Latitude, and I find that the nearest amount in " Sidereal Time " is
19h. 39m. 20s., which answers to V5'23° on the cusp of the tenth house.
Now the oppositesign to '5' is s, so I place s 23° on the cusp of this
house. In the next column I find :::: 15°, the opposite sign to which is
5\,, so I place 5\, 15° on cusp of the eleventh house. On the twelfth I
find * 21°, the opposite to which is ntt, so I place n.11.
21° on cusp of the
twelfth. On the Ascendant is ~ 21° 48', the opposite to which is lll,
so I place nt 21° 48' on the Ascendant. On the second is n 17°,
answering to :t 17°, and on the third s 5°, the opposition to which is
'5' 5°, and I place these on their respective cusps accordingly, and fill
up the other cusps in the usual way.
The Longitude is three hours East, which must be subtractedfrom
the 7 hours p.m., and it leaves 4 p.m., which is the time for Greenwich,
and for which the planets'placesmust be calculated. Had the time been
three hours West it would, of course, have been add instead of subtract.
In Eastern Longitude it is subtract; in Western, add.
All Tables of Houses for N. Latitudes are applicable to the same
degrees in S. Latitudes, in the manner shown above.
(To be continued.)
'Roteson 'Recent:£\lents.
011 March 211d Mr. Gladstone made his last speech on the Parish
Councils Bill, a fighting speech, described as a declaration of war against the
House of Lords. The Moon was then in conjunction with Mars on his
Ascendant.
* * * * *
We notice that " Sepharial," in his book of lectures, predicted Ministerial
success from the fact of the February lunation falling on the place of Jupiter
in the Queen's mid-heaven. It was not at all a fortunate lunation for the
Government, for during its rule the Employers' Liability Bill was lost and Mr.
Gladstone's resignation was announced. The explanation lies in the fact that
the Queen has the direction of the Sun to the opposition of Jupiter in force at
present, and the fact of the lunation falling on the place of Jupiter stirred up
the direction into activity, and took the place of a secondary direction in the
horoscope. The lunar eclipse of March 21st, and the solar eclipse of
April 6th, both fall on unfavorable places in the Queen's figure. The one on
the place of Saturn will cause Ministerial troubles, and perhaps bereavement,
and the other, near Mars, reflects upon the eleventh, twelfth, and sixth
houses.
'.letters to tbe :£t>ttor.

tion, but as a token /Jf good faith.
N .B. -Writers of signed articles are alone responsible for the opinions therein
contained .
DEAR Srn,-As a reader of your Magazine, I have been much interested in

the discussions and opinions published in it with regard to the reliability, or
otherwise, of different systems of directing in Genethliology. I have made
experiments myself, and never found that any system did what the books
pretended, i.e., indicate the exact time to the week or month of events. In fact,
more often than not, however carefully the calculations were made from the
original data, the events did not happen for months, or even years. Anyone
who likes may try an experiment which I have done, viz, : Get George
Eliot's Life "as related in her Letters and Journals, arranged and edited by
her husband, J. W. Cross," make an abstract of the chief events in her life,
and draw up the nativity and compare, after calculating directions. The
time of birth is very precisely given as follows, extracted from an old diary
of her father, who was a very strict business man:-" November 22, 1819:
Mary Ann Evans was born at Arbury Farm at five o'clock this morning."
Arbury seems to be in the parish of Chilvers Coton, as the child was baptized
there.
The figure will be found to be a startling confirmation of Astrological
theories, as regards personal qualities, future fame, &c.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR, 215
Now, it has struck me that the fact of directions antedating considerably

events, which may be ascribed to them by astrologers, is not \'ery surprising.
In fact, it would be surprising if they did 110/. If we assume the stars to be
causes of certain events on this planet, they can only be such by setting into
operation causes which work effects here. No event is of a sudden character,
however u11e:xpected it may be to those whom it affects. Take, for example,
a marriage, unless in the case of a drunken sailor, who does not care whom.
when, or where he marries, it is simply the consummation of an e,·e11t, or
series of events, which may ha\'e been coming off for at least months in most
cases, and years in many. If a direction counted up to the day of marriage,
we may say confidently that it had nothing to do with that event. In the
case of a death, a similar line of argument applies, howe\'er sudden it
may appear to bystanders. And this, too, even in the case of sudden
accidents, disease, or death in battle. The earthly causes ha\'e been at work
varying lengths of time before the event, which is their consummation,
takes place.
For this reason, it seems to me a very futile business to disco\'er arcs of
direction of any kind, which count up to the \'ery time of any event, and the
pretension of astrologers to do so is not calculated to enhance their fa\'orite
science in the eyes of sceptics.
Yours, &c.,
"PUZZLED."
DEAR Srn,-In a recent number a correspondent asks for the horoscope of

the " Future." I wrote the Editor on this subject some time ago, as to
whether the diagram on the cover of the first number was the horoscope, and
he replied in "Answers to Correspondents," on page 47, that my surmise was
correct. The diagram I referred to had st rising, and the planets were thus
placed: I!' in.the eleventh in n, J,, is in the second, Win the third in nr, )')in
same sign on cusp of fourth, d' in the fourth, ~ in \,j' in sixth, 0 in :::::on
cusp of seventh, ~ in )( on cusp of eighth, and 2.(.in * in the eighth. On
latter numbers this diagram has been twisted round, but planets are in the
same zodiacal places, but in different houses, <y>rising, and d' is in the
house of death, although the symbol is partly obliterated.
Yours truly,
" RAMSHALL."
DEAR S1R,-Re your article on j) in lrj>.

Male born December 27th, 1837, about three a.m. Born of very poor
parents. Married August 26th, or thereabouts, in 1860. At that time
earning 21/· per week.
Commenced in business on his own account in 1861. Now a wealthy
man, employing 350 persons,
Female born April 15, 1849, 11.30 or thereabouts at night. Born of very
poor parents, and put to work at eight years of age, or thereabouts. Now
the wife of a mill manager.
Yours respectfully,
JAMES LINNEY.
DEAR Srn,-Mr. Elson's remarks on the marriage of a lady are good so far
as they go, but I feel sure that if he relies upon the lord of the seventh, he will
fail many times.
216 LETTEiS TO THE EDITOR,
Respecting the cause of death, as given by him, I cannot speak, not being
at all sure of any Pre-Natal Epoch other than Conception. If, by any means,
the time of conception could be ascertained, a map for such time would be
valuable, and would probably fill up gaps in a nativity. Looking at
Directions as understood at the present time, I have no great faith in them.
In the course of a month there are on an average 150 to 160 Mutual and '
Lunar Aspects, which will give about five Directions (on the average) for
every year, and if we reckon the Pre-Natal, the number will be double. It
therefore follows that there will be about one Direction to operate in each
month of life. Such, however, is not my experience, by any means.
In reply to f t::,. 'lf., I will give remarks on the map in time for your
next issue.
Respecting the letter of "Julevno," I experimented with Right Ascensions
some years ago, but will go over the ground again in the way indicated in his
letter. I fail to see how the Part of Fortune can be established by any
means; also, what the signs of long and short Ascension have to do with it.
RAPHAEL.
SIR,-I cannot help thinking that your Candid critic is a little too hard
upon "Casael." Astrology is not yet an exact science with hard and fast
laws; a good deal has to be left to individual judgment; and it should be
quite possible for doctors to differ without using hard words about each
other. In the figure on page 245, vol. iii., "Casael" wrote that as the Moon
was separating from Venus, a female had urged the querent to apply to him.
"Candid " replies, firstly, that this has nothing to do with the subject; and,
secondly, that the Moon is not separating from Venus, but from Saturn. I
feel rather inclined to agree with "Casael." There is all the difference in
the world between bodily application or separation and that by aspect. The
Moon is at 12::::: 45, 7 at 12 ~ 14, and ? at 8::::: 5. There is here a separa-
tion from Saturn by trine, it is true, but the Moon is not yet five degrees
removed from Venus, and is still in conjunction with that planet . For this
reason I should re~rd the separation from Venus as of much more impor-
tance than that from Saturn. Saturn ruling the seventh (the astrologer) is,
by aspect, in between Venus (the woman) and the Moon (the querent).
I should also like to say that I think Mr. Elson is quite right in calling
attention to the importance of the lord of the seventh in cases of marriage. I
believe some Hindu astrologers (how many, I do not know) take Venus and
the lord of the seventh for marriage, and ignore the luminary entirely. I am
not prepared to go to these lengths, but I am convinced that those astrologers
who draw an arbitrary and unnatural distinction between Genethliacal and
Horary Astrology, and ignore the lordship of houses in the former, make
a great mistake. I have seen some cases where the position of the lord of the
seventh described the marriage partner better than Venus or the application
of the luminary.
With regard to Pre-Natal Directions, to which Mr. Elson refers, they
seem to be nearly, if not quite, as important as Post-Natal. That is my
experience.
LEO.
MARSUNVEN.-Wetotally ignore all anonymous correspondents. See Notes
under "Letters to Editor." ,
1tbe
Bstrologers' Maga3ine. [ COPYRIGHT].
VoJ.4.
No. 10-
* MAY, 1894. * Price 4d. Post free 4td·
boroscope of b. s. ©lcott, p.tt.s.
T HE subject of my present delineation was born near New York

on the 2nd of August, 1832. The time of birth is calculated to
11.15 a .m. New York Time, or 4.15 p.m. Greenwich Mean Time .
THE HOROSCOPE OF
H. S. OLCOTT, P.T.S.
The horoscope shows the sign Libra to be rising at that time, its
ruler, Venus , being in the meridian, conjoined to the Sun in the regal
sign Leo.
There are no less than five planets in " fixed" signs-Leo, Scorpio,
Aquarius, and Taurus, and of these the Sun has a position of dignity in
a double sense, accidentally by being in the meridian, and essentially by
being in its own sign Leo . This indicates a singular degree of patience,
method, diplomacy, caution,· fixity of purpose, and dogged resolution.
He will never be turned away from a course upon which he has set his
heart ; and by waiting and working in silence and patience, he will
always ultimately succeed in his greatest ambitions. This position also
K
ROROSCOPB OP H, S, OLCOTT, P,T,S,
indicates a peculiar faculty for construction and invention. It gives

strong attachments to persons, places, and even things ; a tendency to
contract habits of life which cling to the native, even through years of
change and activity of body and mind, and reappear at the first oppor·
tunity. The native under these positions of the planets is careful in his
speech, precise in action, orderly in his affairs, and generally has a good
memory for past events and a strong sense of arrangement. The position
of the Sun and Venus in the meridian indicates an ambitious turn of
mind, a keen sense of the fitness of things, a love of the arts, especially
architecture, sculpture, and poetry, having in some degree ability in
these things himself. This position of the Sun will tend to make the
native fond of ornamentation, display, and publicity; while. it will
assuredly confer dignities and honors from noblemen and even kings.
Saturn in the eleventh house indicates false friends, especially among
females, that planet being in a feminine sign, and afflicting the Moon in
a feminine sign also. Mercury and Mars are the two significators of
marriage, and here we see Mercury well placed, but badly afflicted;
and Mars in its "detriment" (Taurus) in the seventh house, that of
marriage. Hence there would be some delay in contracting marriage,
but it would fall out in the twenty-eighth year, i.e., after the twenty-
seventh birthday, when the Moon joins the Sun and Venus in the tenth
house. Mars would produce, however, domestic disturbances, and the
end would not be good.
The sign Libra rising gives the following general indications of the
life :-The sign Libra confers upon its subjects an excellent sweetness
and amiability, kindness, gentleness, and evenness of temper. It ren-
ders the native just, virtuous, sympathetic, and of courtly disposition
and deportment. The affections are constant and the nature forgiving.
The native is frank, outspoken, readily accessible to others, fond of
company, and very communicative; but when left alone, inclined to· be
melancholic.
Like the well-poised Balance, the subject is sympathetically moved
to a decision and as gradually recoils, halting a long while out of a
sense of justice before coming to a decision. If pushed too far, how-
ever, he will metaphorically "kick the beam" and send ev·eryone's
calculations to "limbo." He is easily excited and as readily appeased.
There is a good deal of flexibility in the nature, with a certain radical
fixity of purpose, and, though he may oscillate by persuasion to one
side and another, he can never forsake the central stability of his nature.
The native is inventive, has much .ability f~r mechanics and cons~ruc-
tion, the applied sciences and navigation. He has a strong will, but it
is not always effective, nor, for that matter, conducive to his welfare.
HOROSCOPE OP H. S. OLCOTT, P.T.s.
Successful in his studies, quick in comprehension, the native will make

the most of his mental powers, and will turn them to the practical pur-
poses of life. The appetites are keen, and the sense of pleasures strong
and enthusiastic. The passions are both deep and sincere. The
opinions of the native are volatile, and though there may be strong
attachment to the prevailing theory, yet, the mind beiag very versatile,
it is apt to undergo rapid changes. The occupation will be of a martial
character, may be in the army, secret service, navy, or in surgery,
chemistry, and the like ; most likely of a public nature. But there will
be opposition and probably disagreement with co-workers or partners.
The native will probably have step-brothers or sisters, born of a
different parent, and the father will die early in the life of the native if he
be born during the daytime; children will be few, and the loss of some
is indicated. One of them will cause the native much trouble. There
will be some peculiarities of relationship in the family, a double family
or adopted parents. In the second part of life there will be ill-health
due to some affection of the bowels and bladder, and some dangers to
the hands and feet. The indications of mirriage are not fortunate, and
though the relations will be ardent, they will not endure. Natives of
this sign generally become estranged from the father and closely
attached to the mother. The subject will gain honors of a public
nature, and in connection with his calling will come into numerous
relations with persons of high rank who will render him assistance.
Enemies will be powerful and numerous, but the native will always
have cause to fear most from his own relatives.
Colonel Olcott's mother died at twenty-three years, eleven months
and nineteen days of his age, when the Moon .(ruler of the tenth, and
natural significator of the mother) came to the conjunction of Saturn,
by direction. Marriage took place in the twenty-eighth year, when the
Moon was in conjunction with its raci;al position and in semi-square
(evil aspect) to Venus and Saturn, which were conjoined in Virgo.
Only one result could be expected from such planetary positions, a
change, ending in disappointed affections.
The arc of life reaches to a point between the ~3rd October and
5th November, 19i5. It is to be hoped that the data afforded warrant
us in making so agreeable a prognostication, and in believing that so
many years lie before him in which to complete the work upon which
he has set his heart. ·
The Sun, by direction, _willthen be in the radical place of the Moon
and conjoined to Mercury and in sesquiquadrate to Jupiter. The Sun's
radical place will be affiicted by Saturn and Uranus. The latter planet
will be transiting the opposition of the Sun's place at birth, and the
HOROSCOPE OF H. s. OLCOTT, p:r.s .
. New Moon of October 23rd will fall exactly in the place where the Sun
and Moon are conjoined by direction in the first house.
It will be observed that the Sun in the present nativity, conjoined
· to Venus, is in sextile (good) aspect to the Moon and Venus in the
horoscope of H. P. Blavatsky. Such a position always cements
friendship.
SE PH ARIAL.
REMARKSUPON THE AuovE.-" Sepharial" has sent me his MS. for com·
ment to Gulistan, which puts me rather in a quandary, since one really knows
but little about oneself. However, I think his reading of the sign Libra
hardly fits my case as that of Cancer did H. P. B.'s; still the horoscope, as a
whole, is very interesting and satisfactory. My intimate friends, rather than
myself, should have been asked to judge of its accuracy. It is true that I have
suffered from the treacheries of female friends, yet I have also been blessed
with many who were true as steel, and whose conduct towards me, confirm·
ing the influence of my mother, gave me that respect and regard for women,
which is certainly one of my characteristics. What " Sepharial " says as to
the outcome of my marriage is true, but delicacy forbids further comment. I
am not melancholic, however, in the least. On the contrary, I am consti-
tutionally optimistic, which temperament has carried me through our Society
troubles, and others antecedent, with unwavering hopefulness and per·
severance. He is right about my inventiveness and love for the Fine Arts;
but Libra does not fit me as to having step-brothers, nor as to my father
dying early in my life. I have had four children, of whom two died; have
had very robust health, with the exception of camp-dysentery and fever, con·
tracted in the army; my feet have given me some trouble now and again; and
I was never estranged from my father, while my mother had my passionate
devotion . As for my having had powerful enemies, there is not the least
doubt of it. No man ever had more than I while occupying an important
public position in my own country ; and no man ever cared less or suffered
less from their opposition. My mother's death and my marriage did occur
at the time specified. Finally-to avoid being led into egotistic prolixity, or
an offence against good taste-as regards the presumed date of my decease,
it may interest " Sepharial" to learn that the same prognostic has twice
been made me by Hindu astrologers. That is not saying much , perhaps, for
'poor Powell's Hindu-drawn horoscope prophesied that he would live to be
ninety, and he died within the following fortnight!
Having now done up the two Founders , "Sepharial's" next venture will
be upon the horoscope of the Theosophical Society.
H.S.O.
At the March lunation, ·Saturn and Uranus were both in the fourth house,
. opposing the midheaven, and this had its effect upon the ruling powers of
more than one country. On the 8th of March there was a bomb explosion in
Rome, outside the Chamber of Deputies, the work of anarchists, causing
one or two deaths. In England, on March 13th, the Government was
defeated by a majority of two over Mr. Labouchere's farcial amendment to
the Address to the Queen. On the 17th of March there was a Cabinet crisis
in Belgium. Jupiter beine- in the midheaven, the results were not serious in
any direction.
3nfanttle mortaltt~.
BY " ALAN LEO,"
T HE human body is one mass of atoms, ever coming, ever going.

\Ve are, in reality, myriads of atoms compressed into a solid
body; even in ourselves the work of evolution goes on, for, it is said,
we change our bodies every seven years.
Relatively. we may say that the twelve signs of the zodiac are com-
posed of millions of atoms, for the zodiac, which may be considered as
the astral framework, is made up of degrees, minutes, and seconds, ever
changing, and, apparently, passing on; every four minutes in time is
equal to one degree in space, and in this degree are thousands of
seconds, equivalent to atoms, all in motion, nothing remaining still.
Now, if the seventh year, physically, is a critical one, we can account
for it zodiacally, for by the process system the eighth house then comes
to the Ascendant, the ninth representing new life, new birth to the
physical system, or reaction, for each alternate house represents the
positive or negative, electric or magnetic, active or passive, and if this
point be well studied, it will be a key to the critical times and periods
in an infant or individual's life. The first house is positive or active,
the second negative, the third positive, the fourth negative, and so on.
The fourth, being the midway point between the eighth and Ascendant,
will always require closely watching, for it is during the rising of the
processed fourth that the evil influences have most power to operate,
the eighth house then coming to the fourth by process. Very little
attention appears to have been paid to these positive and negative signs
or houses, and to those who feel interested in these infantile cases, I
would draw their especial attention to this important clue. You will
notice that in the majority of cases given, the negative signs held the
planets, or occupied fatal positions in the horoscopes.
When the negative principle predominates, then the system is more
likely to attract disease, and the recuperative power is not so great to
throw off the malignancy as when positive signs hold the planets and
the Ascendant. I have noticed repeatedly that when a positive sign
ascends, and the lord of the Ascendant is in a positive sign and house,
that the body is a robust one. This is a rule that you may easily test,
for the positive and fiery signs always give heat and vigour, the watery
and negative indicating weakness and liability to ailments, for it is the
nature of the magnetic to attract, the electric to repel. And this fact
will answer the numerous students who have pointed out to me that
Kl
there are many cases where heavy affliction at birth has not resulted in
death. I regret that space will not allow me to deal exhaustively with
these cases separately, or go as far with the· matter as I would wish, as
I am compelled to finish the article in the present volume. But next
month I will deal with a few of these cases, and show why the children
did not die, when you will find infantile mortality no longer the puzzle
that it has been, for Nature has her laws, and, while we obey them, the
results will be satisfactory, but while humanity disobey these laws, how
can we expect healthy bodies for the mind to use or work through ! It is
with this knowledge of astral laws that the incoming race will concern
itself, and to disobey them will then be a greater sin than the breaking of
the Mundane laws, for it is by working in harmony with these laws that
we become men and women. And more of this harmonious working would
save the world much of the suffering and sorrow it now has to bear
through sheer ignorance of these laws . The more we investigate, the
more we find that knowledge is power, and only a complete knowledge
of Astrology will enable us to understand the universal law of harmony.
Thousands of infants die annually, and will continue to do so until the
parents know more of astral physics; thousands of useless births might
be saved; also much suffering to the female portion of humanity, if
men would only bestir themselves, and think of deeper things than
profitless pleasure; but while the population increases at such a terrible
rate, as evidenced by the census tables recently published, so long will
infantile mortality continue.
I am no puritan, but I think we are all wasting valuable time when
we neglect to study the laws of nature so plainly written in the skies,
that he who runs may read, and I think the social problem will ever
vex our objective thinking savants while they reject the deeper. side of
Nature's mysteries. Even those who profess Christianity will not seek
for the cause of the world's suffering, but are content to go on crying
out about the D-evil Satan (Saturn), who they know nothing about,
little thinking that he is in the skies; limiting even them to their own
narrow views, they may well fear th~ broadening influence of Astrdlogy,
for the limitless space around us is incongruous with narrow creeds
that terrify the personality only ; but while this reckless production
goes on, so long will the personality predominate, and infantile
mortality increase.
(To be continued.)
In the Tluosophist for March, "Sepharial " predicted a deficiency in the

Indian Budget, and this has already been amply fulfilled.
~otes on 'btnbu Sstrolog~.
THE ASTERISMS.
1st. 2n<.l. 3rd. 4th.
'Y' 13}° 'Y' 26: ~ 10° ~ 2310
Aswini. Bharani. . Kritika. Rohini.
5th. 6th. 7th. 8th.
n 690
8 II 20° Qo 31° Qo 16: 0
Mrigasirsha. Ardra. Punarvasu. Push ya.
9th. 10th. uth. 12th.
Qo 300 Sl, 13}° S1. 26f nJ1.10°
Ashlesha. Mag ha . P Phalguni. U Phalguni .
13th. 14th. 15th. 16th.
ltJ1.23~0 6 6: 0 6 20° lll 31°
Hastha. Chitra. Swat hi. Vishaka.
17th. 18th. 19th. 20th.
lll 16: 0 lll 300 J 13f / 26! 0
Anuradha. Jyeshta. Mula. Purvaskadha.
21st. 22nd. 23rd. 24th.
VS IOo vs 231° :::: 6t Z 20°
U tharashadha. Shravana. Dhanishta. Sathabhiskak.
25th. 26th. 27th ..
* 3t *16f *300
Purbhadrapada U Bhadrapad:i. Reva ti.
T HERE are twenty-seven Asterisms, and in the books before me

they are measured, not by zodiacal degrees, but from .certain
fixed stars. Thus Aswini is said to extend from Zeta Piscium to Beta
Arietis. But because of the uncertainty of the Nirayan zodiac, to
which I alluded in the first of these articles, and in pursuance of the
plan suggested of endeavouring to make a reasonable amalgamation of
Eastern arid Western Astrology, I have thought it best to translate the
table of Asterisms into terms of our Western Sayan zodiac, and I have
accordingly done so in the above table.
Each Asterism is divided into four quarters, and by reference to the
table of Navamsas, given on page 160 of this volume, it will be seen
that each quarter of an Asterism is a Navamsa-that is to say, that
four Navamsas make an Asterism.
::oTES ON HlSDU ASTROLOGY,
The first Asterism, in terms of the Sayan zodiac, extends from

o 'Y' o' to I 3° 'Y' 201 ; the second from 1 3° 'Y' 201 to 26° 'Y' 40' ; the
0
third from 26° 'Y' 40 1 to 10° 8 01 , and so on.

These Asterisms inevitably remind the reader of the twenty-eight
mansions of the Moon, referred to by some old astrologers, and the not
unimportant question-Which of these two is correct, the twenty-seven
Asterisms or the twenty-eight mansions ?-is one that must he answered
before we can place m·uch reliance upJn either. The average European
astrologer regards the twenty-eight mansions as fanciful; and the
Asterisms are likely to be treated in the same fashion unless our Hindu
brethren can succeed in infusing a little science into that Astrology
..
which " Sepharial" says is only an art with them.
The division of the zodiac into twenty-eight parts (four septenary
quarters) is stated to be much older than that into twelve signs; and
by some it is believed that one Asterism has been " lost," whatever
that may mean, which would bring the number up to twenty-eight, the
same as the mansions. If the correct division is that into twenty-seven
Asterisms, they would be built upon the triangle, with numbers three
and nine for the key ; but if into twenty-eight mansions, then upon the
cross, with four and seven for the key numbers. It is perhaps just
possible that both divisions may have their uses, the Asterisms having
one meaning and the mansions another, varying as the triangle and the
cross vary, and to be applied for different purposes.
I will now give the supposed effects produced by the presence of the
Moon in the Asterisms . I have appended a few names, for convenience
of reference, of those persons the position of the Moon at whose birth
is accurately known.
1st Asterism. Handsome, intelligent, popular, fond of ornament,
sweet speech, skilful worker. (Hahnemann).
2nd. Healthy, prosperous, truthful. (Alan Leo).
3rd. Handsome, famous, a voracious eater, fond of other men's
wives. (General Gordon).
4th. Truthful, handsome, honorable, polite. (Duke of Edinburgh).
5th. Skilful, active, rich, talkative, timid and changeable, fond of
the opposite sex. (A. J. Pearce, Zadkiel I., Queen Victoria).
6th. Insincere, irascible, ungrateful, bad disposition. (Tennyson).
7th. ·Devout, patient, will live in comfort, of wrong views, sickly.
(Sir Isaac Newton, Adelina Patti, Dr. Anna Kingsford).
8th. Charitable, "learned in the Shastras," wealthy, popular,
good disposition. (Mrs. Annie Besant).
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9th. A pretender, ungrateful, and a cheat. (The late Prince

Imperial, Lord Lytton, the novelist).
10th. Prosperous, religious, respected.
I Ith. Of sweet speech, generous, of wandering habits, will serve
under kings. (Sepharial, Sibly, the poet Coleridge).
12th. Learned, prosperous, popular. (Lord Beaconsfield).
13th. Active, ingenious, merciless, a thief or a drunkard.
14th. Handsome and well proportioned, fond of fine clothes.
(Gladstone, the Prince of Wales, Prince George-Duke of York).
15th. Charitable, kindhearted, self-controlled, of sweet speech,
skilled in trade. (Mme. Blavatsky, Sir Richard Burton).
16th. Good-looking, careful in money matters, a good speaker,
often at variance with other people. (Prince Consort, Empress
of Germany, Colonel Olcott).
17th. Wealthy, of roving habits.
18th. Cheerful, but of irascible temper, virtuous, will have few
friends. (Emperor William II. of Germany).
19th. Firm, decided, self-reliant, peaceable disposition, prosperous.
Qohn Bright).
20th. A pleasant marriage, proud, constant in friendship.
(Princess Beatrice).
21st. Popular, a general favorite, virtuous, charitable.
22nd. A good marriage, prosperous, famous, learned. (Lord
Wolseley, Prince Albert Victor-Duke of Clarence).
23rd. Kind, wealthy, courageous, fond of music, careful in money
matters. (Napoleon I., Emperor William I. of Germany, Prince
Rudolph of Austria).
24th. Adventurous and independent, eloquent speaker, truthful,
will overcome his enemies. (Dore).
25th. Wealthy, close in money matters, unfortunate, of good
speech, will be ruled by women. (Napoleon III., Boulanger).
26th. An able speaker, happy, virtuous and charitable, will have
children and grandchildren, will overcome his enemies. (Emperor
Frederick of Germany, Princess Alice, Gcethe, Shelley, Raphael I.,
"Aphorel ").
27th. Well proportioned body, popular, learned, wealthy,
conscientious and moral.
The books add that the weaker the Moon is, whether accidentally,
essentially, or by aspect, the less will these supposed effects be visible.
K 3
On glancing over the table, it will be seen that some of the

descriptions are very appropriate to the persons whose names I have
affixed to them, while others are vague, if not absurd. For instance,
Tennyson may have been "irascible," but he was certainly not all that
the sixth Asterism would make him out to be. General Gordon
(third) was both handsome and famous, but it makes one smile to see
him put down as a voracious eater and fond of other men's wives. On
the other hand, the eighteenth Asterism hits off the German Emperor
remarkably; the nineteenth could not be better for John Bright ; the
twenty.fifth in part suits both Napoleon III. and Boulanger; parts of
the sixteenth suit each of the persons whose names are appended to it ;
the "wandering habits" of No. II hits off the poet Coleridge to the
life, only it applies mentally rather than physically, for a more
shiftless, irresolute, undecided, and unstable man never lived ; the
"sweet speech " also suits him, for he was remarkably eloquent.
It would seem as if the effects of the Asterisms applied sometimes
on the physical plane and sometimes on the mental, and that they
therefore require interpreting. The "timid" of No. 5 applies to the
Queen in the sense of loving retirement and shunning publicity; and
the "fond of the opposite sex" applies in the sense of her having been
a very loving and faithful wife. In No. 7 the " sickly " applies to
Dr. Anna Kingsford, for she died, I believe, prematurely of consump-
tion ; the " wrong views" also apply in the sense of her having been a
somewhat unorthodox and original thinker, one who refused to be
bound by the fashions and customs of the day. In a scientific
application, the same also suits Sir Isaac Newton, and I believe the
tetm "devout" would apply to both of them. Dore (No. 24) was
" adventurous and independent," but only in matters pertaining to his
art. The eighth suits Mrs. Annie Besant very well, so far as it goes.
It is remarkable that the ninth should signify a "pretender," for the
late Prince Imperial stood in that relation to the throne of France.
Whether the Asterism could by any possibility apply to the first Lord
Lytton, I do not know. The "fond of fine clothes" of the fourteenth
may apply in the sense of fondness for popularity, dignity, and power,
which are the " fine clothes " of the Ego.
On the whole, unless these descriptions can be carefully verified
and extended, either by reference to ancient books or a careful
examination of horoscopes, the Asterisms are not likely to prove
of much use to astrologers. They are like the aphorisms of so many
old writers, both Eastern and Western-too vague, and not practical
enough.
t!)atllant,tbe Bnarcbtst.
AUGUSTE VAILLANT.
3 a.m., 27th December, 1861.
M~zieres.
DECLINATIONS,
23 0 21 15 ? 12 4 ? 50
18 » 3 18 3 8 22 °W 27
24 ~ 9 2 2', 20
T HIS is the horoscope of birth of the French anarchist who, on

December 9th last, threw a bomb from the gallery of the
Chamber of Daputies at Paris, the bomb exploded, wounding a great
many people. Mars and the Moon are rising in close parallel in the
sign Scorpio, a very unfortunate association of forces. Mars gives
energy to the character, but his square to Venus, semi-square to the
Sun, and parallel to the Moon, incline to dissipation, and, with the
affliction of Mercury by Jupiter, Saturn, and Uranus, show a badly-
balanced mind. The figure is not wholly destitute of good points-
there are the sextiles of Mercury to Venus, and of Mars to Jupiter;
these, with the fact that the Moon rules the ninth house, may very
likely have made him regard the anarchy of force as a kind of religious
duty, and possibly to him his murderous cruelty may have seemed to
have a conscientious basis. A fiery enthusiasm, a lack of restraining
power, a nature at ali times willing to proceed to extremities, and
loving war batter than peace, are shown here. He was the illegitimate
son of a servant girl, in accordance with which fact is to be noted the
presence of Venus in the mother's angle afflicted, and also the affliction
of the Moon in a sign unfavorable to morality.
VAILLANT, THE ANARCHIST.
He threw the bomb on the 9th of December, 1893, and, allowing a

day for a year after birth, the progressed planets were then situated as
follows:-
0 7:: 56
18 . 18
D II VJ 13 ~ 18:: 55 2 14
2.
*512
22 · 14 16 · 44
3 14 1 41 2/.2 7 nJt l llo ? 22 l'Jt 4 llo W12 n 33 llo
22 . 27 2. 28 5 • IO 22 · 21
His directions were very severe-
0 P. o D -n, = 1890.
,, o Ase. 1891.
,, Par. D E, } =
" J E,
0 llo L ~ P.
The Sun is afflicted by the Moon, the Ascendant, Mars (lord
of Ascendant), and Mercury (lord of eighth). There is no secondary
direction (to the progressed Moon), measuring exactly to the event, but
the lunation preceding the event (which has the force of a secondary
direction) was very significant. From the progressed positions, it will
be seen that the progressed Mars was at 14 f 41, in opposition to the
radical Uranus at 13 n 33 in the house of death. This interplanetary
direction was brought into operation by the New Moon of December
the 8th (see page 106), which fell at 16 f 30, in conjunction with the
progressed Mars and in opposition to the radical Uranus. This formed
a martial secondary direction, which coincided in nature with the
martial primary, and acted with characteristic suddenness and force.
By transit the planets were situated thus at noon on the day of the
outrage: 0 17 f 41, Do VJ 30, ~ 27 :: 39, 2 4 :: 56, 3 14 nt 58,
2/.23 ~ 41, ? 22 o!:!o 36, f 13 llt 14, f II ll 59•
Sun opposition his Uranus, Neptune on his Uranus, and Mars and
Uranus in conjunction on his Ascendant, Jupiter opposition his Mars
and square his Venus.
By adding 1° to the M.C. for each year of life, we have the
progressed M.C. at 21° lll, which gives us the directions M.C. d '?
and M.C. L D·
By adding 30° per annum to the Ascendant, we have the progressed
Ascendant at 5° s, which gives us the direction Ascendant 8 0.
The pre-nataldirections in force at the time of his death were :-
Ase. L? P.
Ase. d 3 P.
DE, d 3 P.
It is curious that neither by pre-natal nor post-natal motion. wero
VA!LLANT,
THE·ANARCH!ST
,
there any aspects to his progressed Moon at the time of the outrage.
The stimulus thus wanting was supplied by the December lunation, as
I have previously remarked.
Now let us turn to the pre-natal epoch.
9 o'-+
~ .p
<61! 0 S'..> ~!':), ,{\ \
I!' 'I
'Y' ~.,l
'O'}ob.:'lo<.,
VAILLANT's EPOCH,
bi: <.,"vi'loo
'\."\ 15th March, 1861,
8 ..>
~S'{fi
©6
<: 7·45 a.m .
:t:::,
~ ~s o'
4"\ ~ 1(~ ~
1(<.Ii
DECLINATIONS,
2 0 6 9 2 5 II ? 36
17 D 52 6' 43 17 21 w 42
~ 40 2f. 25 16
He had Mars and the Moon rising in parallel at the pre-natal epoch
just as he had at birth. The reader will understand that, just as the
immortal Ego cannot function properly if it has an unsuitable body to
work in, so the positions and aspects of the epoch can only manifest
themselves in the life history, when the horoscope of birth harmonises
with them. The fact of Mars and the Moon rising, and being in
almost the same parallel of declination in the two figures, brings the
epoch and natus together, and makes the natus a suitable vehicle for
the epoch, at least as regards these two planets. Jupiter, lord of the
eighth, is in the tenth house from the eighth, in square to Mars, rising
lord of the twelfth-a public death of a disgraceful nature .
At the time of the outrage the directions operating from the epoch
were:-
0 P . L W P. } = 1892.
. ,, L©Jl. }) P. L 2f. P. = Dec. 1893.
0 }l. Par. ~ P. = 1894.
Mercury is of the nature of Uranus, because those two planets are
equidistant from the Ascendant by longitude : ~ 28 * 58, W9 n 34.
230 VAILLANT, THE ANARCHIST,
There is another point in which the epoch agrees most curiously

with the natus. In the natus the direction 3 8 W coincided with
death. From the epoch we have the progressed 3 at 8 n 35 in con-
junction with W ~ at 8 n 26. This, as well as the similar post-natal
direction, was stirred into action by the Sun's direction to Uranus, and
by the New Moon I have mentioned.
It will be noticed tha-t in the pre-natal figure three planets are in
the twelfth house, while Mars, part lord of the twelfth, is rising in
square to Jupiter, the other lord of the twelfth. When the twelfth
house is so unfortunately occupied as this (Venus is ruler of Ascendant,
and is opposition Saturn and square Uranus), there are two interpre-
tations open: not only may the native suffer from secret enemies, but,
unless the figure shows a good disposition, he may himself act as a
secret enemy towards other people. This figure bears out the idea,
and so does the birth figure, where we see Venus, ruling the twelfth,
squared by Mars. One who has the ruler of the Ascendant in _the
twelfth (as at Vaillant's epoch) may, if the figure is a bad one, be of a
sly and underhanded disposition, unscrupulous, and working in secret ;
but if the figure is a good one (as in the Queen's horoscope), be only
of a retiring nature and shunning publicity. In both cases, of course,
the native may suffer from secret enemies ; the Queen's life has been
attempted a number of times. In fact, each house in the figure has at
least two aspects; it shows not only the influence of the environment
upon the native, but also vice versa, the attitude of the native towards
his environment. For instance, if malefics occupy the second house,
the native may lose money, and he may also be the cause, innocently
or the reverse, of other people losing money. ·
6.,,
VAILLANT'S DEATH FIGURE,
Feb. 5th, 1894, at 7.12 a.m.

Paris.
THE II CYCLES " OR " PERIODS" OF THE PLANETS, 231
DECLINATIONS.
15 0 53 3 ~ 45 7 ? 17
24 D 4 23 J' 27 16 w 16
16 ~ 16 17 2f. 33 20 w
24
This is the figure for the moment when Vaillant was guillotined at
Paris. He showed not the slightest fear of death, and his last
utterance was a cheer for anarchy. The Sun and Moon are rising in
the fourth house of his birth figure, and they are in square to Uranus
on his natal Ascendant. It is worth noticing that the Moon is almost
exactly rising, and in a fixed sign, in each of the three figures.
Uranus and Jupiter are in opposition from h is natal first and seventh,
and the Moon, Sun, and Mercury are midway between the two and in
square to both . Of the three planets rising, the Moon was rising at
his birth afflicted by Mars ; the Sun ruled his midheaven, and relates
to the public nature of the death, by order of the State; and the third
planet, Mercury, ruled the eighth house, that of death, and here also
rules the fourth . It matters little which we take as ruler of the Ascen-
dant, whether Uranus or Saturn; if the former, it is squared by the
planets rising; and, if the latter, it also rules the twelfth and is in the
eighth. The three malefics are above the earth, and both benefics are
void of good aspects. The rays of Mars and Saturn to Mercury are
the only good aspects in the figure, and they agree well with the
desperate resolution and determination he displayed to the last .
LEo.
We have to thank an esteemed Parisian astrologer for furnishing
us with the data of Vaillant's birth, &c.
~be "<t~cles or "Pertobs of tbe Planets.

tt tt
F OR the convenience of our students who purpose investigating the

Hindu method of directing, we give below the " periods " of the
various planets used in Astrology. As there is a difference in some
respects between the "periods" assigned by R. C. Smith (Raphael I.)
in his Manual of Astrology (a work every student should possess)
and that used by our Hindu friend, we merely call attention to it.
They will be found on pages 172, 199, 230 in vol. iii. of the
Astrologers' Magazine, but we may here remark that exception to the
period of Mars has been taken by an esteemed correspondent, whose
opinion is valued, and who finds from experience that Mars' period
232 THE "CYCLES" OR "PERIODS" OF THE PLANETS,
should be fifteen years, and not nineteen, as stated by Raphael I.

Another able astrologer assigns a period of twenty-five years to the
Moon. We, therefore, think it desirable to draw attention to these
discrepancies, and would be glad if students and others will closely
investigate these "periods," and say which is correct, so that the true
period of each may be registered and published for the benefit of future
astrologers.
The following periods have been calculated and tabulated by an
American 'mathematician and astrologer, and we shall be glad to hear
especially from the astrologers in India whether these cycles or periods
are the true ones, and, if not, what period of time they allot to the
planets :-
TABLE OF PLANETARYCYCLES
.
''
MOTION MOTION MOTION MOTION
PERIOD.
PER YEAR . PER MONTH. PER WEEK, PER DAY.
Yrs. Mths. Days. Deg. Min. Sec. f Dei. Min Sec. Deg Min. Sec. Min. Sec.
19 0 0 18 56 48 I 34 42 0 21 43 3 6
4(?25yrs.)90 o 0 [ 7 0 I 45 0 15 0
IO O O 36 0 0 3 0 0 0 42 0 6 0
8 0 0 45 0 0 3 45 0 0 52 30 7 3°
3 19 l 24 l 35 25 0 21 52 3 7t
II IO 9 30 48 0 2 34 0 0 35 42 5 6
29 5 21 12 9 0 I 45 0 0 24 30 3 30
83 II 43} 4 17 24 0 21 27 0 5 0 0 42
• Query I 5 years.
This system of "Cyclic" directions will be found on page 171,
vol. iii. of the Astrologers' Magazine, but it is given there under another
name, viz., the "Process," the modus operandi being the same; but
instead of using the Primary (Solar) and Secondary (Lunar) Directions,
as taught in vol. i. and ii., the " cyclic" positions of the planets are
calculated from the foregoing table, and inserted in the various signs,
in addition to the radical positions. The student will find it best to
insert the radical positions in black ink, and the cyclic progressive
places in red, for the sake of distinction, but if a colored ink is not at
hand, let them be marked with a "C." We shall revert to these
" Cyclic" directions at greater length shortly .
munbane Betrolog~.
0~
NEW MOON,
5th May, 1894,

2 hr. 41 min. p.m.
T HE New l\foon for the month of May is formed on the cusp of the
ninth house, the conjoined luminaries being in opposition to
Uranus in the third house. This will produce trouble for the post
office; some serious thefts will be discovered during the month. \Ve
may expect accidents by sea and land, and explosions. The position of
Venus is a favorable indication of a high marriage rate, but as the
planet of love is in close semi-square to the lights, a notable causecelebre
will figure in the Divorce Courts. Saturn's position is unfavorable for
finance ; there will be some notable failures, for Saturn is retrograde in
a cardinal sign. Mars, too, foreshadows trouble to children and places
of amusements. The ruler of the Ascendant, in the hous~ of death,
points to a high rate of mortality, arid the death of a notable man will
occur during the month. It is a very unsatisfactory figure, and all
classes from the monarch downwards will feel the effects of these
adverse influences.
New York will experience fires or explosions, sudden panics, much
ill-health, and some notable deaths.
St. Petersburg has a momentous month, much trouble with foreign
affairs, scarcity of finance, and notable deaths in the higher circles
of society.
ttbc $tubcnts' <torncr.
BY ".RAPHAEL."
T HE map for Deeming's birth, page 61, vol. iii., of the Magazine, is
certainly a favorable one, and I fail to see how it can be judged
otherwise . Jupiter is strong in the M.C., and elevated above all the
planets, which is a sign of success, honour, and fame, more especially
as the 0 is within orbs of a t:,. aspect. 'vVe find ~ and ~ are in D
to ? , which denotes a bad and cruel temper, but their position in the
map does not signify murder, or a wild character, such as Deeming
was. I regret I have never seen his photograph, but I do not think he
can be represented by ::::, which, as some of your readers have
remarked, is a hmnane sign, and, not only that, but a kind and sympathetic
sign. W rising is certainly not evil enough to produce a murderer.
Speaking candidly and plainly, I should not have judged the native to
be the wild, headstrong, cruel person that Deeming was.
That there is an intimate connection between birth and death I am
sure, but whether the method used by your esteemed correspondent is
the correct one, I must leave.
In reply t? another correspondent, a New Moon occurred April 30th,

1832, about 4 p.m. I cannot give the exact minute, as I have not the
requisite data. Surely, this gentleman cannot expect me to calculate
the planets' places for every half-hour for twenty-four hours; this
would involve between 500 and 600 calculations, and occupy several
pages of your valuable space.
Respecting the lord of the seventh and marriage. If a planet or

planets occupy the seventh house, consider it or them, also have
recourse to the application of the Moon for a male, and the Sun for a
female, blend the two, and judge therefrom, but if neither of these con-
ditions exist, take the lord of the seventh. " Lords " of houses should
not be neglected, but the presence of a planet in any house over-rides
anything that the lord of that house may signify.
(To be contintted.J
Bstrologtcal lSoolts.
SIMMONITE's "ARCANA OF AsTRAL PHILOSOPHY,oR THK DocTRINE
OF NATIVITIES."
0 F all the books published on Astrology during the present

century, this is one of the best. It was originally published
about 1851, and was in great demand; in fact, so scare had it become
that in 1889 we were offered £5 for a copy! However, in 1890, Mr.
John Story, of Sheffield, determined to re-publish it, and he issued it
in nine monthly parts, at 1/3 each, and thus enabled those students
whose means were small to become possessed of it, which otherwise
they could not have done, and we can only hope that Mr. Story
has not lost by the adventure; but, whether he has or not, students
now have the opportunity of bbtaining copies. It comprises
414 P:1ges, which includes no less than 100 pages of tables, which
include proportional logarithms, tables of declination, sexagenary
tables, tables of houses of right and oblique ascension ; in fact, alt
the tables necessary for the working of a nativity by Ptolemaic,
Placidian, or any other form of directing ; even the "periodic "
directions will be found therein, although in his remarks thereon he
states he would rather trust to transits than this method of calculating.
There is a Vf'ry good lexicon or dictionary explanatory of the terms,
symbols, &c., used in Astrology, the descriptions and characteristics of
each "face" (or decanate) that may be rising or culminating, the
effects of directions (periodic, secondary, mundane, etc.); in fact, all
that is necessary for a student to know.
Book I. comprises 186 pages, and is in the form of a "catechism,"
and the lessons are exhaustively treated.
Book II. (pages 187 .to 306) is "on the doctrine of the Sphere
and Astro Mathematics." There are 181 problems, all worked out
in detail, showing the various methods of direction, and the rules are
clear, a knowledge of abstruse mathematics being shown to be
unnecessary, even to work out Ptolemaic or Placidian directions
correctly.
Book III. (307 to 414) consists principally of tables, the use of
which is· clearly exemplified, numerous examples being given, and we
advise every student to send to us for a copy. The price is xo/6, post
free, and they will find, when they study it, that the price is absurdly
low for such a useful book. We have copies OQsale.
'Re"tews.
t. THE ASTROLOGICAL
SELF-INSTRUCTOR,
by Bangalore Suryanarain
Row, B.A.; Neutral Press, Ballary. Three shillings.
2. THE AsTROLOGICAL
PRIMER. Same author and publisher. One
shilling.
3. A GurnE TO HINDU AsTROLOGY, by T. S. Narayanaswami Iyer;
Addison and Co., Mount Road, Madras. Three shillings.
T HESE three little books on Hindu Astrology have recently come

before us, and perhaps a brief notice of them may be welcome to
our readers. In these days when the East and West are being so
closely united in their studies of occult subjects, Astrology cannot fail
to receive a new impetus from the two classes of mind. The European
astrologer turns towards the Hindu Jyotisha seeking fresh light <:>n the
ancient science; but, too often, instead of obtaining it, he turns back,
baffled and perplexed by the discrepancies with which he meets. It is
well known that the Hindu zodiac consists of the constellations of stars,
whereas European astrologers erect their figures by the signs of the
zodiac, the first point of which commences where the Sun crosses the
Equator in March. As a consequence of this distinction between the
Hindu and European methods, the rules evolved by the one school are
often contradicted by those of the other, and the result is inextricable
confusion. For instance, in the \Vest, the waxing Moon is fortunate,
and the waning Moon unfortunate ; but, in the first two of these three
books, the signification is exactly reversed, although the third book and
the Brihat Jataka accord with the Western view. By the Hindus,
Aries is said to govern the head, Taurus the face (neck in Europe),
Gemini the breast (shoulders, and arms, and lungs in Europe), Cancer
the heart (breast and stomach in Europe), Leo the belly (heart and
back in Europe), Virgo the navel (intestine and parts of abdomen in
Europe), Libra the abdomen (kidneys in Europe), and so on. The
reason for some of these anomalies is evident ; by the precession of the
equinoxes the stars appear to move forward in the signs, and the
constellation Cancer covers, roughly speaking, the same part of the
zodiac as the sign Leo; therefore, when the Western says that Leo
governs the heart, and his Eastern brother maintains that it is Cancer,
they are both referring to the same portion of the zodiac, and calling it
by two different names.
The discrepancies are equally great in the significations of the
ELEMENTARY ASTROLOCY. 237
twelve houses of the figure. Thus the second house, which with us
governs we1lth, with the Hindu astrologer signifies family, eyes,
wealth, speech, journeys, face, metals, gold. The sixth house, which
with us indicates servants and disease, in the east stands for enemies,
kinsmen, diseases. The twelfth, which with us signifies imprisonment,
or confinement, and secret enemies, with them governs travels, loss,
evil deeds, hell, heaven. The third of the three books named above
gives twelve different significations to each house; for instance, the fol-
lowing are the twelve meanings pertaining to the tenth house :-(r)
religious acts done in a past birth; (2) good acts and life; (3) landed
property; (4) mercy, clemency; (S) religious devotion; (6) house
property; (7) devotion to God; (8) courage; (9) fame; (ro) seed; (rr)
apparel; and (12) change of dwelling place to an eastern country·.
Many of the rules and aphorisms which guide Hindu Astrology are
just as contradictory as the instances we have noted. We are afraid it
is out of our power to attempt a reconciliation of the two schools, for
we incline to the opinion that neither one possesses the complete truth.
Many of our western rules have been shown from time to time to be
unreliable, and there cannot be much doubt that a good deal of
exoteric Hindu Astrology will have to be thrown aside if the truth is to
be discovered. We trust that those of our readers who have the true
welfare of the science at heart will not lose sight of the Hindu methods
in their studies; and that our Hindu brethren, in their turn, will do
what they can to reconcile their rules and ours, so that the truth in
each system may be revealed, and what is false in both rejected.
Perhaps our friend "Sepharial," who is now living in India, may be
able to help to this end.
We believe the three books we have quoted above may be obtained
or ordered through the Theosophical Publishing Society, 7, Duke
Street, Adelphi, London. Each book contains a lengthy introduction,
and the first two are adorned with a symbolical map, representing the
signs of the zodiac.
Jelementa~ Bstrolog~.
W E are frequently asked, especially by new subscribers who are

desirous of commencing the study of Astrology, to give
rudimentary instructions in the current issues; they say (and rightly)
that the greater part of the letterpress is too advanced for them. This
is a fact of which we are well aware, but if we were to re-publish our
ELEMltNTARY ASTROLOGY.
lessons in the current issues, we should be doing injustice to those

friends who subscribed for the Astrologers'M,igazi,iefrom the commence-
ment, and who would, naturally, object to have a repetition of matter
that they have already, for, judging by the numerous letters we receive,
our publication is perused with avidity; but to our new students, and
others who will become students later on, we recommend them to
obtain our Vol. I., where they will find the A B C of Astrology, with
an example horoscope worked and delineated in the simplest manner,
the measurements and nature of the aspects, planets, and significance
of the planets in the different signs and houses, and, in addition, they
will find therein the system of "directing" used and taught, or, to put
the same in simple language, to find out by calculation the time when
events will happen . The Numbers 1 to 12, which comprise Vol. I.,
cannot be had separately, as the few remaining copies have been
bound in volumes, present price ro.6 There are not many left, and in
a short time the price will be raised, as no reprint will be made.
Vol. II. was in great demand that there are now only six volumes left,
the price of each being 21 '-, and when Vol. I. becomes scarce, the price
of that will go up, so our friends are advised to be in time, and secure
Vol. I. without delay . In fact, those in whose horoscopes gain by
speculation is shown might do worse than specul:1te in the volumes
that are now obtainable, for in a few years they will be rare, and will
command at least double what they are now charged at . Vol. II . was
originally 6,'6, the price is now 21 r., as we said before, and there will
not be any reprints, so that those who may feel inclined for a little, mild
speculation now have an opportunity of so doing.
ierrata.
We regret to find the Mundane Map on page 212 in our April
number is wrong; the cusps of the second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth,
and opposite houses are all one sign out. The lunation was formed in
the first house , hence the interpretation of the figure is wrong. We
can only tender our apologies to our readers, and are sorry that the
mistake was not found out before the number was issued . It will
afford our opponent (A. J. Pearce) an opportunity of expletory
language, which, judging by past experience, he will not be slow in
availing himself .
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So Jupiter has left Taurus without Home Rule for Ireland, passing both
Houses of Parliament. What will be the result ? Ireland, it is well known, is
astrologically under the influence of the sign Taurus, and Jupiter, the greater
benefic, entered this sign in March, 1893. Mr. Gladstone moved for leave to
introduce the Home Rule Bill in the Commons on 13th February, 1893, at
3.43 p.m. (vide page 188, vol. iii.). Jupiter was then exactly culminating, but
Mars was also in the midheaven in Taurus, applying to the opposition of
Uranus, and Jupiter was squared by the Moon, the latter on Mr Gladstone's
Ascendant. We then remarked that "it hardly needs an astrologer to predict
that the Bill will encounter the sharpest and bitterest hostility-that goes
without saying; but at least it is satisfactory to note that the planetary
indications are quite in. accord with the political." At the nearest New
Moon (page 160, vol. iii.) Mars was again in the midheaven in Taurus, in
opposition to Uranus. The Bill passed the House of Commons, but, on
September the 8th, it was rejected in the Lords by a majority of ten to one.
By that time Jupiter had passed out of Taurus and had entered Gemini, after
a very brief stay only in the sign. It will not again enter Taurus until 1905, and
there are not wanting prophets who think that Home Rule will be placed on
the shelf until then. We are not so sure of this, for now that Jupiter in
Taurus has given an impulse to the movement, its influence may continue from
other appropriate signs. Certainly, so long as Uranus and Saturn continue in
Scorpio, the opposition sign to Taurus, there is very little likelihood of
anything like a full measure of Home Rule being granted, whatever minor
measures may pass in the interval. Both malefics will have left Scorpio by
1898, and in the following year Jupiter will enter that sign. The first Home
Rule Bill was introduced in the Commons on 8th April, 1886, when Jupiter
was in Virgo, the trine sign to Taurus. Aquarius is the tenth house of Ireland,
and in the autumn of 1890, when Mars and Jupiter were in conjunction in
Aquarius, there occurred the tremendous excitement over Mr. Parnell's
divorce suit. We look to some fresh development of the Home Rule agita-
tion when Saturn enters Scorpio at the end of this year, and again when
Jupiter enters Leo (the fourth from Taurus) in 1895.
* * * * *
Parliament met at two p.m., on 12th March. The figure was almost the
same as that for the New Moon of the 7th March . Leo was rising, with the
Sun in conjunction with Mercury in the ninth. Jupiter, in Taurus, culminated
in conjunction with the Moon, and in square to Venus setting. This shows a
fairly strong and popular Cabinet. The Moon and Jupiter are squared by
Venus (ruler of the mid heaven) and opposed by Uranus, hence the path of the
Government will be by no means smooth, and their opponents will score
many points against them. During the session, some very eminent men will
die. The affairs of Wales will come prominently to the front while Jupiter
passes through Gemini; Mercury, the ruler of Gemini, is well aspected, but
is retrograde in a weak sign, Pisces; hence it is very doubtful if the desires of
the Welsh for Disestablishment will be gratified. Ireland will benefit by
legislati, .>n, as the Moon and Jupiter are in Taurus. The landed interest will
suffer (Saturn and Uranus in the fourth), and the struggle between the Lords
and Commons will become still more bitter and intense, although the final
step will not be taken during this session . With Jupiter and tht: Moon in the
midheaven, it seems not improbable that the Government may appeal to the
country and a General Election follow the end of the session, the war cry
being against the Lords.
t,ettere to tbe J5bttor.
Letters of general Interest alone are imerted . Correspondents desiring reply must
contained.
THE MOON IN CAPRICORN.

DEAR S1R,-The able article on this subject, and the useful suggestions as
to tabulation, should commend thems elves to all genuine students, and were
all to endeavour to find cases in the lives of notable people, whether
politicians, clerics, lawyers, merchants, &c., who have the Moon posited in
this sign, should communicate the fact to the Astrologers' Magazine for the
purpose of tabulation. It will be difficult, I expect, to get the time of the
people's birth in many cases, bnt the dat~ being known, it could soon be seen
whether the Moon was in this equinoxial sign, and this might throw fresh
light on the influence of the Moon in Capricorn.
2f. IN Yj',
BOMBAY.
DEAR Srn,-It is a matter of great pleasure to me to observe that Raphael's
ephemerides are now extensively used in Bombay, and other places in India, for
astrological calculations. On comparing these with those of Zadkiel we find a
minute's difference in the longitudes of some of the major planets, but this is of
little consequence. You are already aware that the Eastern method of
working out periods (dasha) chiefly and solely depends upon the exact position
of the Moon at the time of birth, even to seconds, and therefore a minute's
difference in her longitude would be equal to two and a half days, roughly,
in the time for happening of the events. Will you kindly suggest to these
authors of ephemerides (Zadkiel and Raphael) the utility of working out all the
planets to seconds, as they are done in Indian ephemerides (Panchangs); or,if
this is too much, to work ont the Moon at least up to minutes and seconds,
and render those little books really very useful.
Hoping to be excused for thus trespassing on your valuable time, and that
you will give a little corner in your magazine to the above,
I am, Dear Sir,
Yours faithfully,
J. V. MAHIMTURA.
Bnewereto ~orreeponbente.
REMARKABLE NATIVITIES.-\Vill any student or amateur astrologer delineate
the horoscope of a lady born at Salisbury, 7 p.m., April_ 5th, 1858.
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T HE superior planets lf., ? , W, and W have only onesign awarded

them on account of their slow and ponderous motion. If you
still object to this apple-pie order and reasons given, pray, kind reader,
enlighten us as to why the 0, J), lf., ? , W,and 1!fshould only have
one house each, and the inferior planets ~, ? , and J, too, have two
houses each. By the modern system of robbing old Chronos ( ? ) of
one of his houses(.=) to provide for Uranus (W), and serving Jupiter
in a similar manner by approprfatfog 7E for W, who is thus provided
for, Ptolemy gave Libra ( ~) as the exaltation of Saturn (? ), because
that sign was in trine to Aquarius (.=), Saturn's old house, and the
triplicity of Saturn (?) and Mercury ( ~ ). Now, we moderns having
of necessity to dethrone Saturn from Aquarius for Uranus (his real
domal dignity), the exaltation of Uranus must, by the same rule, be in
trine to his own house Aquarius. The one trine Libra(~) is already the
"exaltation" of Saturn (? ) by both old and new methods, hence the other
trine, Gemini ( n ), must, by the same infallible rule of Claudius
Ptolemy, be the exaltation of Uram,s.
We thus see by this mode of reasoning that Scorpio (nt) is not the
exaltation of Uranus at all, but, as this sign is in trine to Neptune's ( 1£1)
house (or domal dignity) Pisces ( 7E), the exaltation of Neptune is
therefore Scorpio. Again, Pisces, the house of Neptune, is the
exaltation of Venus, so that she ( ? ) may be in trine to Jupiter, in his
exaltation in Cancer ( $ ). The watery triplicity, ruled by Mars, the
star of energy, both by day and night, according to Ptolemy's system,
is, by the method our friend uses, the exaltations of the three planets,
viz., Neptune in Scorpio, Jupiter in Cancer, and Venus in Pisces, and
all these planets have been proved to be warm, moist, and fruitful in
nature, Neptune being considered generally the spiritual Venus, and
Uranus the spiritual Mercury ; hence their exaltations should by nature
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242 THt,; HOUSES AND EXALTATIONS OF THE PLANETS.
and reasonbe placed in the signs 1'fl.and n . What a remarkable man

the late Lord Beaconsfield was! He had Neptune, Jupiter, and Venus
all in conjunction in Scorpio at his birth (the sign of the nose, by the
way, in Physiognomy), and here is a good example of Neptune stro11g
in his exaltation in 27° lfl. (about), and all these planets on or near his
Ascendant ; therefore, by the method advocated by our friend
"Jaskeb," Lord Beaconsfield was a fair specimen of a Neptune man,
as Neptune was in Scorpio, his exaltation. "Sepharial," too, has
Uranus in his exaltation (Gemini), and he is a true child of Uranus.
The ~ (Cauda Leonis), though much laughed at by modern
astrologers, really faithfully records the place i11 the zodiac of the
invisible M 0011, the evil magnetic vampire of this earth, totally invisible to
us, and which otherwise would· not be known, were it not for the
revelations of the ancient Hermetic Philosophy.
To summarise, Uranus is in his own house in Aquarius, in his
"exaltation" in Gemini, and in triplicity in Libra. Neptune is in his
own housein Pisces, in his exaltation in Scorpio, and in his triplicity in
Cancer. Uranus is very strong in Scorpio so long as Mars remains in
.Aquarius, as he was from 9th May to 8th November, 1892, because
M:.rs and Uranus are then in "mutual reception" by house,a powerful
"essential dignity" like Mars in Scorpio, and Uranus in Aquarius .
In Mr. Gbdstone's horoscope they were in this position-Win 13° ro' »t,
th::i houseof Mars; Mars in 19° 31' :::::,the house of Uranus, a strong
mutual reception. In our friend's horoscope, he •has the planets in
reception, W in 'Y' in fourth, and in the first in the pre-natal map, an
occult house according to Hackett, whilst cf is in :::::in the second
house in sex tile. Therefore, these positions and aspect make " J askeb"
an enthusiast in Astral Physics, and it may be well to note that he has
W L ~ at birth, whilst " Sepharial " has W o ~ , and " Zadkiel I.
(Morrison) had ~ L W. Thus, when W is in nt and J in :::::,the
former planet is very strong, and he will continue to be so for some
years, so l01ig as he ( W) remains in nt and W in n . And why ?
Not because W has any dignity in 111 at all; but simply because W and
W are now, and will be for some time to come, in powerful reception,
and all those men and things ruled by W and W will increase in power
and public favor year by year, for these planets are now as strong as if
they were in their own houses or exaltations, and are, as stated in the
Book of Judges-" The stars in their courses (or rather, exaltations)
fought against Sisera." When Uranus is in Scorpio, and Mars, his
disposer, is in a sign where Uran us has no dignity (like TIJt,for instance),
then the native has no innate occult power or love of the marvellous
whatever. Reydon and many other astrologers say ~ is in his worst
signs ·.vhen in $ and 7E. How is it that R. C. Smith (Raphael I.) and
NOTES ON HINDU ASTROLOGY,
R. J. Morrison (Zadkiel I.), who have both done so much for Astrology
in England, had ~ in those very signs, Raphael's ~ being in *,
and .
Zadkiel's in <2o? Raphael II. also h~d ~ in *, and Henry Irving has,
we believe, the same position, whilst Lord Tennyson had ~ in <2o,like
Zadkiel I., and Lord Randolph Churchill, cute and witty, has ~ in *.
" Sepharial" has this position also, "J askeb" likewise, and " Aphorel "
has three planets in * (the D, W, and ? ), whilst his ~ & in o0 20' 'Y'
is just about to re-enter the same sign *, where so many able
astrologers have him placed, whilst Pearce the "sapient one," has ~
in :t, his detriment also. According to the "apple-pie " order of
Ptolemy, ~ is likewise in his detriment in *, but the foregoing facts
in our friend's opinion upset the dogmas of Ptolemy in this p::>int.
Very few talented Members in the Hous3 of Commons, or good orators,
seem to be born at a time when ~ is either in n or nJl, as can be seen
by obtaining their dates of birth and the year . About the year 1833,
there was a great discussion as to whether the planets were stronger or
weaker in the signs allotted to them by Ptolemy, for to judge any man's
mind and character by the place of ~ alone, and the sign he is in at
birth, is sheerfolly, and can only end in failure. Ptolemy never taught
any such absurd doctrine. He said, " ~ and the D and their
dispositors," and how they aspected all the other planets, and whether in
"familiarity" or "conciliated," which, according to Wilson, meant
any kind "of reception," or "aspect," ·or "posited in glory" in the
figure .
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DIVISIONS OF THE ZODIAC .-(Continued.)
I HA VE now described the divisions of each sign of the zodiac into

two parts-Horas; three parts-Decanates; and nine parts-
Navamsas. There are several other divisions mentioned in the books. For
instance, each sign may also be divided into seven parts-Saptamamsas;
ten parts-Dasamsas; twelve parts-Dwadasamsas; thirty parts-
Trimsamsas ; also sixteen and sixty parts, but no information whatever
of any value is given concerning these last two divisions.
Trimsamsas, or thirtieth parts, are of course equivalent to degrees.
It seems to me that each of these degrees, having its own proper
influence, should have some one particular planet associated with it as
ruler or significator; but neither in Eastern nor Western Astrology, so
far as I am aware, is this idea carried out. Instead of it we have, in
Western Astrology, Ptolemy's table of the "terms" of the planets in
each sign, given on page 87 ·Of Raphael's Guide, vol. ii. A corres-
ponding classification of trimsamsas is given in Hindu works. Both

methods-terms and trimsamsas-agree in dividing each sign into five
irregular parts, ruled over by the five planets ? , 2+, 3, 2 , and ~ ;
and the 0 and D do not enter into either classification at all; but in
other respects the two tables disagree. Here is the Hindu table :-
Ioto 50 6°to 10° u 0 to 18° 190to 250 26° to 30°
Odd signs. o' ? 2+ ~ 2
Ioto 50 6° to 12° 13° to 20° 21°to25° 26° to 30°
Even signs. 2 ~ 2+ ? o'
Particulars are given of the influence of each planet when in its own
trimsamsa or elsewhere, but it is unnecessary to give these here, as the
student can readily deduce them for himself. For instance, Mars in
his own trimsamsa strengthens the martial characteristics for good in
the native, and a similar effect will be produced by the Sun in a martial
trimsamsa.
Which of these two tables is correct, the ,Hindu trimsamsas or
Ptolemy's "terms," I do not know. European astrologers, such as
Lilly and others, have always taken Ptolemy's table as correct, though
modern astrologers generally ignore the "terms" altogether. Varaha
Mihira uses his trimsamsas in the horoscopy of women, which, I should
imagine, is of very doubtful value in the west.
Dwadasamsas.-This is the only other division of the signs of the
zodiac to which much reference is made in the various books; and even
here the information is very scanty, at least, in the books to which I
have referred. Each sign is divided into twelve equal parts, consisting
of 21 degrees. The first dwadasamsa of Aries is Aries, the second
Taurus, and so on, the last being Pisces. Then the first Dwadasamsa
of Taurus is Taurus, and its last Aries. The first of these sub-divisions
of each sign is named after the sign itself.
This is what I find stated in the books, but my objection is that it
leaves an unnatural hiatus between the end of one sign and the begin-
ning of another. For instance, the last dwadasamsa of the sign Aries
is Pisces, and this is followed, not by an Aries dwadasamsa, but by one
named after Taurus. Now, it is not in nature that Pisces should be
followed by Taurus; and, on this account, I doubt very much whether
these sub-divisions have been correctly arranged.
The information given about these dwadasamsas is of the scantiest.
All I can gather is that, under certain circumstances, when malefics
are prominent and a non-human sign rising, the creature born at that
time (whether animal or plant) is of the nature of the dwadasamsa
occupied by the Moon.
NOTES ON HINDU ASTROLOGY, 245
Dasamsasare formed by dividing each sign into ten equal parts of
three degrees each. The first dasamsa of Aries is Aries, and the others
are repeated in perfectly regular order all through the zodiac. No
information whatever, so far as I am aware, is given about them.
Saptamamsasare divisions of each sign of the zodiac into seven equal
parts of 4f0 each. They are named in regular order. The first sapta-
mamsa of Aries is Aries, and its last Libra; the first of Taurus is
Scorpio, and its last one Taurus, and so on in regular order. No
information is given about them, but I have some reason to believe,
from the investigations of a clever English astrologer, who has paid
great attention to them, that they are of extreme importance, and
govern polarity. Every occultist is aware of the great power of
number seven, and it would only be in accordance with experience to
find that the,se saptamamsas were of value. I hope the astrologer to
whom I have referred will publish the result of his investigations when
completed.
It will be seen that these divisions of the zodiac have been carried
to a much greater length in the East than has ever been the case with
European astrologers. Although we have at present really very little
information as to the use and value of these various divisions, the idea
has occurred to me that they must all be governed by the properties of
numbers. That is to say, the signification of Navamsas must depend
upon number nine, the triple triangle, the number of productiveness;
and, as I have already indicated, Navamsas seem to be of interest in
questions of birth and vitality, relating especially to the triangle of the
first, fifth, and ninth houses. Saptamamsas may relate to polarity
such as that of the first and seventh houses.
But further speculation is useless until more reliable information
can be furnished by Hindu astrologers.
Of all the "amsas" which I have now described, the ones I can most
strongly commend to the reader's attention are the Drekanas (decanates)
and Navamsas, for tables of which see my last article. Hindu books
seem to place quite as much stress upon Navamsas and their lords as
we Western astrologers do upon signs of the zodiac and their rulers;
and in every astrological question, from the first house round to the
twelfth, reference has always to be made to the Navamsas, to see if
they are favorable or not.
(To be continued.)
The eclipse of April has been followed by very severe earthquakes in

Greece, which, beginning on April 20th at the Taurus-Scorpio full Moon,
continued over a lengthy period, and entailed the loss of several hundreds of
lives. On May 2nd, an earthquake was felt in Wales; the Sun was then in
opposition to Uranus from Taurus-Scorpio.
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3nfanttle mortaltt\?.
BY "ALAN LEO,"
0 BJ E CT I O NS.
L AST month I promised to give some cases where severe affliction
at birth did not kill the infant : but I think one strong case will
be sufficient to illustrate. I have, therefore, chosen a figure where the
affliction is severe, the subject being a lady noted in the sphere in
which she moves, · also well known to many of the readers of this
magazine, as well as myself.
She was born in Salisbury, at 7 p.m., April 5th, 1858, positions
as follows :-
Ascendant. 2nd. 3rd. 4th. Intercepted 5th. 6th.
1° * 6' 29° * 21
0 D ~ ~
I 50 'Y' 42' 701tj' 13' 270 'Y' 32' 240 'Y' 46'
?
210 Qo 35'
The planet Venus, significator, also ruler of the eighth, house of death,
is heavily afflicted by Saturn, lord of the fourth; and, with the excep-
son of Neptune, there is only one good aspect in the figure, Saturn
textile Jupiter. The Moon first meets the sesquiquadrate of Uranus
in the house of death, then square Sun, followed by a semi-square to
Mars, from which it passes to opposition Saturn, then square Venus, to
square Mercury. So much for the Moon ruling the first four years of
life. However, she commenced with a tumble out of bed at three
weeks, was nearly starved to death by the deceit of a wet-nurse, at four
months fell downstairs, had low fever at five years, scarlet fever at
nine, measles very badly at ten, inflammation of left eye at eleven,
and so on.
The Mo0n is in the magnetic sign Capricorn, and thus attracts the
various diseases; and Saturn, the enemy of youth, and the friend to the
aged, is in the negative sign Cancer, and in elevation, therefore more
powerfully placed for evil; but what saved the child in the face of ail
this affliction ? Note, the ruler Venus is strong in the positive sign
Aries; also the Sun is aspected by Mars from a positive sign, thus
strengthening the constitution, and giving the child heat and power to
repel or throw off the evil influences, and enables it to pull through
illnesses that in many cases would have killed. I have seen hundreds
of cases where the affliction has been so severe that it seemed almost
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impossible for the infant to survive, but the severe affliction is only
apparent in nine cases out of ten, look well to the nature of the signs
holding the planets, &c.
"Isis," of Ashford, has forwarded me the following letter, and the case
will serve as a further illustration :~
DEAR SIR,-Enclosed is the natus of a child who, on September 7th, 1891,
pulled a large cup of boiling water off a table, scalding his chest considerably,
principally on the left side. I was at a loss for a long time to account for the
accident astrologically; the secondary directions did not seem to show it
in any way.
The only direction having any bearing on it seems to be the pre-natal ones
of D o i and d I;,, but i is in l:S-nothing. to do with chest; I;, in Sl,, that
again has nothing to do with the chest ; but when I apply the process, it
seems to me to supply a cause.
Four months and seven days. - April 30th, 1891, Ascendant 13.9,
Qo x ·10° 34' 32" =Z3° 43' '23, within 18' of· Ase. o W II>,if the process is
applied to the Dthe result is striking.
Four months and seven days.-April 30th, 1891, D13.41 :!:!: X 10° 34' 3-Z:'=
24° 15' :!:!:, within 14' of D d W Il,. I thought that seemed to account for it
remarkably well.
Looking at the natus again, I thought Ascendant O I;, would surely
produce something, as I;, is affiicting at birth more than W· I worked it out
to see when it would be, and was surprised to find it had passed also
Ascendant O if .
5 months 21 days. Oct. 21st, 1892.
April 30, 1892, Ase. 13.9 Sl, X 14° 13' 36" 27° zz' 36" Sl, Ase. d I;, II>
,, ,, ({ 13.41 111.X 14° 13' 36" = 27° 54' 36'' 111. D o I;, II>
" " 0 9·49 '2D X 14° 13' 36" = 24° z' 36" '2D 0 D 1b{II>
3 days, April 27th, 1893.
April 30, 1893, Ase. 13.9 111.x 14' 48" = 12° 54' Ase. o if ~.
,, D 13.41 1 x 14' 48" = 13° 26' d if II>,o D II> 8 Ase. P.
"
" 0 9.49 Sl, X 14' 48" = 9° 34' 0 0 0 ~ App. 8 2f.I!>,
"You see the affliction is greater, yet without result. Can you suggest any
reason why one set produced a result and the other nothing, although the
affiiction was equal, if not greater .
.How is one to tell which aspects are going to have effect, and which not?
Yours truly,.
Isis.
The planetary positions are as follows :- Time of birth, 6 hours,
8 minutes, a.m., April 30th, 1890, at Ashford.
Ascendant. 2nd. 3rd. 4th. 5th. 6th.
130 n 9 $ zo q;; 190 Sl, go
0 D ~ if
9° l:S49' 13° llJl 41' 29° l:S30' 27° I2° 1 55 E.
2f. I;,
IOO:::::: 44' 270 Sl, 1' E. 240 ~ I'
Now, this case fully illustrates what I have said about positive and
negative houses. Here is I;,, lord of the eighth, in the fourth in Sl,.
This sign is one of the best for Saturn to be in, because the malignancy
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of '1 is greatly reduced in the fiery signs, and his power for evil in this-
case is much lessened. W is also in a positive sign, and Mars, who has
the sextile of Jupiter, the most elevated planet, is in the fiery sign
Sagittarius. The Ascendant is a positive sign, and so the testimonies
are all in favor of the boy successfully meeting the Conjunction of
Saturn and the Square of Mars, but Saturn is not afflicted. The
greatest affliction comes from Mars, opposition Ascendant, but the
Ascendant has the trine of Jupiter, and Jupiter is sextile Mars. The
next question of Isis I will answer in the next number.
(To be continued.)
munbane Bstrolog~.
NEW MOON,
3rd June, I 894,

10 hr. 56 min. p.m.
T HE lunation is formed near the cusp of the fifth house, the

luminaries being in conjunction with Jupiter and Neptune-a
peculiar satellitum. As these planets are opposing the eleventh, the
house significant of the House of Commons, there will be a period of
trouble in store for the Chamber. Mars, near the cusp of
the second, is unfavorable for finance---expenditure will exceed receipts.
Accidents on the high seas and explosions will result from the position
of Uran us, and the fact of Saturn being in a cardinal sign in the house
of death foreshadows that many notabilities will join the majority
during the period affected by the lunation.
Venus near cusp of third in sextile to Mercury is favorable to benefits
affecting persons and things signified by these planets ; but, as Venus is
afflicted by the tenants of the fourth house, the post office, and matters
ruled by the third, will be adversely affected.
MUNDANE
ASTROLOGY. 2+9
St. Petersburg will be greatly excited, Anarchists may cause
trouble, and warlike talk will be general, for Uranus and Saturn are in
the seventh, whilst Mars rises-an evil testimony for peace and
prosperity.
New York and neighbourhood will have an eventful month, plenty
of trouble is in store, but some benefit will accrue from Jupiter whilst
he transits Gemini.
THE SUMMER INGRESS.
THE SUN (0)ENTERS CANCER(qp)

On 21st June, 1894,
At 10 hr. 57 min. a.m.
AT the moment of the Sun's entry into Cancer, the planets are
posited as in the foregoing map. Mercury is the ruler of the
figure, and is in the eleventh house in trine to Mars and sextile to
Venus; this foreshadows much excitement in the House of Commons,
exciting debates: Scotch affairs, signified by Cancer, will be prominent.
Mars in the seventh seems to point to warlike talk, with much corres-
pondence and busy times in the Foreign Office. Jupiter in the mid-
heaven is favorable to Royalty and the Powers that be, but the position
of Saturn (notwithstanding that Jupiter is in trine, and Saturn is in his
exaltation) is not favorable for the revenue. Uranus in the third
promises some serious accidents through explosions and railway
causalities, and many deaths in consequence, for Mars rules the eighth,
and is in sesquisquare to the eccentric planet. It is also well to notice
that the Moon is applying to a square aspect of her dispositor. Also it
may be well to draw the students' attention to the position of Neptune,
who is culminating and in semi-square to Mercury, who rules the mid-
heaven and the Ascendant, and note what is produced during the rule
of the figure. There will be some notable divorce cases, for Venus is
afflicted. London, and places ruled by Gemini, should benefit by
Jupiter's transit through the sign.
L 3
ltcrmtnue t1'ttre:Preetbent Garftclb.
T HIS is the figure for the moment when President Garfield was
shot by the assassin Guiteau, a disappointed office-seeker. The
President had driven up to the railway station, an<l was entering it at
the time the shot was fired. He came to the station for the purpose of
travelling to Long Branch, New Jersey, where his wife and daughter
were staying. Two barrels of the revolver were discharged, and one
ball entered the right arm, the other the small of the back. It was
from the latter wound that he died on the 19th September, after a
period of great suffering ..
It is, I believe, generally taken that in the case of a murder, or any
transaction in which two people are in\'oh·ed, the Ascendant represents
the one who moves first in the matter. There is probably something
in this view, but I am not sure that it covers the whole truth. How
should we distribute the houses in the case of a fair stand-up fight
where one of the combatants is as much to blame as the other? Again,
in the case of a duel, should we take the Ascendant as representing the
man who makes the challenge, or the one who offers the insult, that
leads to the challenge? It wot1ld seem difficult to decide, for, in some
cases, at any rate, the responsibility must rest about equally between
the two.
I am inclined to look rather differently upon such figures. think
the Ascendant really is a general synthesis of the whole figure. That
TERMINUS VITA!:: PRESIDENT GARfIELD. 251
is to say, nothing can come to fruition in any astrological figure except

what is contained potentially in the Ascendant, and by "Ascendant" I
mean more especially that sign that is on the cusp of the first house,
for there may sometimes be two celestial houses (signs) within the com-
pass of the mundanefirst house. No event can take place unless it is
contained potentially in the rising sign.
Unfortunately, astrologers are not yet in a position to say exactly
what is and what is not contained in embryo in that most important
sign of the whole twelve, the one that is upon the eastern horizon.
How little we yet know of the sub-divisions of signs, and their real
significations!
According to the theory I have indicated, the correct mode of
procedure would be for the astrologer to erect a figure for the time
indicated, and then ask himself "\Vhat events are likely to happen
under such influences as these?" In answering such a question, one
might travel round the whole figure and consider each of the twelve
houses in turn. The Ascendant would then have some such meaning
as that attributed to the lord of the hour by those who pay attention to
planetary hours; it would indicate the general influences at work, and
would apply in some degree to both the murderer and his victim.
In this case, the murdered man was the President of the nation ;
therefore, the tenth house, its lord and the Sun, are to be noted ; also
the fifth house, because it is the eighth from the tenth, the Sovereign's
death house. It was an assassination by a secret enemy; therefore, the
twelfth house must be considered ; and the ninth, because it is the
twelfth from the tenth. The motive was revenge for disappointment in
office-seeking, and this relates to the second and tenth houses. The
railway station comes under the third house.
There are no planets in the M.C. (although the Dragon's tail is
there), but its ruler, Mercury (also, ruler of the Ascendant), is squared
by Mars, the latter being in conjunction with Saturn in the ninth house
(twelfth from tenth), and ruling the eighth house, Saturn ruling the
fifth (eighth from tenth). This is a plain picture of the event that
actually happened. The ruler's planet is squared by the lord of the
house of death from the ruler's house of secret enemies; and the lord of
the house of death is in conjunction with the lord of the ruler's house
of death.
The President was intending to travel. The lord of the house of
short journeys is also lord of the house of de~th, and is badly afflicted
in the house of long journeys.
It is worth noticing that the Sun, the general significator of the
highest personage in the country, is not afflicted, except by the semi-
252 TER)I I ~us VIT,E: PRESIDENT GARFIELD.
square of Venus, ruling the second, but is in sextile to four planets.

Against this, we may place the fact that President Garfield did not die
at once, but lingered on for nearly three months. At times it was
almost hoped that he might recover.
Mercury, the President's planet, 1s afflicted in Leo, which sign
gover_ns the heart and back; and it was from the wound in the back
that he died.
It is remarkable that Mercury is in an Aries Navamsa of Leo.
Aries is here the death sign; and thus Aries (death) is associated with
Leo (the back). Saturn, ruling the President's death house, is also in
an Aries or death Navamsa, as is Uranus rising. The cusps of the
Ascendant and Mars are associated by both being in Pisces Navamsas.
Pisces is the fo1elfth sign of the zodiac, and has sympathy with the
twelfth house (secret enemies).
Each of these indications may seem trifling by itself, but when they
all point in one direction they become important. There are several
other indications of the kind; for instance, the Moon is in the thirteenth
Asterism, which indicates one who is "of active habits, full of
resources, shameless, merciless, a thief, and a drunkard." The
President's house has Gemini on the cusp, the third sign of the zodiac,
and governing the same matters as the third mundane house ; short
journeys. Its ruler, Mercury, is in the third sign from Gemini (which
again introduces the idea of travelling), and this is Leo, the monarch's
sign, which is here the twelfth sign of the figure. The Sun itself,
although not badly affiicted, is in an unfavorable sign, the twelfth sign
from its own house. (It is worth noticing, in passing, that the Sun is
not well placed in any of the three watery signs: 1ll is the fourth; the *
eighth ; and Clo, the twelfth from S\,, the end, death, and secret enemies,
of the Sun). The lord of the third and eighth is in the ninth; death
while travelling. The lord of the President's eighth is in the Presi-
dent's twelfth; assassination. The lord of the eighth is in the second
from the eighth, which involves death and money. The malefic con-
junction is in Taurus, the second sign of the zodiac, which has the
same meaning as the second mundane house; money again.
. James Abram Garfield was born on the 19th November, 1831, near
Cleveland. At noon on the day of his birth, the planets were situated
as follows (Cleveland time):-
0 26 1ll 39, D 25 ~ 37, ~ o I IS, ? 14 ~ 6, d° 7 1ll 56, 1+15 ::: 13,

? 13 1lJt.56, I§ IO:::: 54•
At the murder, his radical Saturn was rising with the Moon and
Uranus near it, and Mars was exactly in opposition to its radical place.
~be 1Rattonaleof IDeclt
nation.
D ECLINATION is distance north or south of the equator. Since

the complete circle of the earth measures 360 degrees, the
distance from the equator to the Poles, being one quarter of the whole
circumference, is 90 degrees. Any two heavenly bodies equi-distant
from the equator are said to be in the same parallel of declination, and
the astrological effect of such a position is generally stated to be
similar and equal to that of a conjunction.
It is easy to understand why conjunctions, oppositions, and other
aspects should exert influence astrologically, for in such aspects the
heavenly bodies are lying on or close to the line of the ecliptic, and are
either side by side or else separated from one another by definite arcs
of the circle, the good aspects being founded upon the triangle, and the
bad ones upon the square or cross. But it is not easy, at first sight, to
see why declinations should exert any influence at all. Two bodies in
the same parallel of declination are often in no aspect to each other;
are distant from each other by no recognised arc of the circle; the
influence exerted does not depend in any way upon aspect, and cannot
be referred either to the cross or the triangle. \Vhy, then, should
declinations have any effect, and why sh ould they act like conjunctions,
and not like squares or trines? I think it is possible to give an answer
with the help of one or two illustrations or analogies.
\Vhen any two bodies are exerting influence on each other, there is
a certain point in the line of junction between the two where the one
will balance the other, and that point is called the centre of gravity .
Take an ordinary pair of scales ; there are the two pans and the bar
connecting the two. The centre of gravity is where the bar is poised,
midway between the two pans, and the whole weight of the bar and
the two pans is concentrated in this centre of gravity. Now take any
two planets separated from each other a certain number of degrees, it
matters not how many . If the Sun, or any other heavenly body, is
situated midway between these two planets, it will receive the full
influence of both of them, because it will be placed at their joint centre,
not of gravity, but of astrological influence. \Ve have haJ- several
excellent illustrations in this magazine-for instance, in the Prince of
W ales's horoscope, his progressed Sun had arrived at the midway
point between Mars and Saturn at the time of death of his eldest son.
THI·: RATIO~AI.~: OF DECLIKATION.
The analogy of the pair of scales enables us to understand how the Sun,
in such a case as this, receives the combined influence of both Mars
and Saturn, and how that influence is similar in nature to that of a
conjunction.
This may he described as a kind of parallel by longitude, and a
similar explanation will hold good of mundane parallels, whether by
longitude or right ascension. Any two planets equi-distant either from
the vertical line of the meridian (cusps of tenth and fourth) or · the
horizontal line of the Ascendant and Descendant (cusps of first and
seventh) will exert an influence on each other exactly the same as if
they were in parallel declination. The line from which the two planets
are equi-clistant, whether the vertical line or the horizontal, will act as
the centre of influence, or as the Sun does in the instance given above,
and will collect, focus, o·r mingle the two rays. The two bodies will
then act upon each other and upon the cusp of the house in question,
as if the three were in parallel declination. Take an imaginary
illustration. Let 15° cy, rise ; let 1? be situated at o0 cy,, and 0 at
30° <y>; the 0 and ? . will then be in mundane parallel (by longitude)
with each other and with the cusp of the Ascendant, and will act
accordingly. The same thing may be applied to the cusps of the fourth
seventh, and tenth houses.
A similar principle applies to zodiacal parallels. If two planets are
in the same parallel of declination, it matters not whether they are on
the same or opposite sides of the line of the earth's equator, this line
will act as the Centre of Influence, and will connect the one with the
other. The equator, although not physically visible, is, nevertheless,
functionally real and existent, being midway between the two poles-
the North Pole, or head of the earth; and the South Pole, or its feet.
In fact, the equator may be said to be the neutral point or centre of
influence between the two poles, just as the centre of the bar is
between the two scale pans.
But it may be objected that when the two heavenly bodies are both
on the same side of the equator, the latter does not really run between
them, and, therefore, does not collect their influence. For instance, if
the 0 is at 5° cy,, it will be in parallel declination with any planet on
the ecliptic at 25° n.Jl,and both will be on the same side of the equator.
The reply is that they will then be equi-distant from the vertical line
connecting the two tropics, o 23 and o 1'5',which line will run midway
between them.
By the aid of another illustration, I think it is possible to go a little
further.
THE RATIONALE OF DECLINATION. 255
Those who have some acquaintance with occult literature will be
familiar with the idea that the Cosmos is divided into a number of
planes. If we take the two most familiar planes, the physical on
which we live, and the astral plane next above it, we shall, by
investigation, find plenty of evidence to justify us in concluding that
whenever any force or energy is set going on one of these planes, it is
immediately reflected on to the other, just as objects are reflected, and
inverted, or turned round, in a mirror. I have often been present at
:spiritualistic seances, where clairvoyants have described the so-called
"spirits" present and have given their names. I have bPen told by
such clairvoyants that these names are sometimes seen written up
reversely, just as if a slide had been put in a magic lantern the wrong
end first, so that the name "Jones" would be seen SENOJ. The
same principle of reflection from one plane to another is seen in the
tables and diagrams of the Sephiroth of the Kabalah. The first three
Sephiroth form "a radiant triangle," b., with the apex pointing
upwards ; and the second three are "considered as a triangle of
reflection with the apex below, " "i1, writes Dr. \\·ynn vVestcott
(Lucifer, ix., p. 28). This reminds us again of the two interlaced
triangles called Solomon's Seal, adopted as the symbol of the
Theosophical Society; the white triangle of spirit, apex upward, when
• reflected downwards, becomes the dark triangle of matter, apex below
-De11Wn est Deus inversus.
The science of electricity helps us to realise the fact that a force
acting upon one plane is immediately reflected and inverted on to the
next. Let two wires be placed parallel to one another, but not
touching. If a current of electricity is passed through one of them in a
certain direction, a similar current spontaneously springs up in the
parallel wire, but flows in the opposite direction. - Most people listening
at a telephone realise this . Let a man listen at an instrument connected
with wire A; he will not have to wait long before hearing fragments of
conversation carried on along various other wires-B, C, and D-not
in connection with wire A, but running parallel with it for a short
distance. The electric current started on one wire, B, C, or D, is
transferred by induction to wire A, and the conversation thus
reproduced, although the two wires are not in any way connected.
\Vhy a current flowing along one wire should induce a reversed
current along a parallel wire, no one knows, so far as I am aware; but
the fact remains. These two wires stand as two planes of Cosmos ;
and, if a force is exerted on one plane, an equivalent, but opposite
force, immediately springs up as its representative on the other plane ;
the line of division between the two planes forming what I have
previously described as the Centre of Influence.
THE R~TIO'.'\ALE OF DECLINATION,
:--Jow, for the hearing of this upon zodiacal parallels, let the
northern and sPuthern hemispheres of the earth represent two planes,
and the equator th,· line "' junction or division hetwe:m these. The
facts I have just mcnti,Hwd ,,-ill enable the reader to realise that if any
planetary force is exerted in one hemisphere, it will ine,-itably he
reAected or i•1duced in the other in an inverted or reversed form. We
know for a fact that it is so in the case of the signs of the zodiac. The
six northern signs, when reflected downwards, appear as the six
southern, equal in strength, hut opp::isite in nature and influence. If
the Sun is situated at, say, the t,,-enty-third ckgree of north declination,
a reflected and inverted image of it will be invisibly existent on the
corresponding plane of southern declination. Then, if any planet is
situated on this southern plane, it will receive all the force of the
induced current set up hy the S1111 on this plane; the planet will
combine its intluence with tint of th e Sun's induced current, and the
combination must inc ,·ital,ly he th ~ same in nature as a conjunction.
The planet will l>e in conjunction w;th the Sun's induced current; and,
via i•rrsa, of course, the Sun in conjunction with the planet's induced
current. I think there cannot be much doubt that these currents are
actually existent, and not merely imaginary. In cases where the two
heavenly bodies are both on the same side of the equator, there will be
two reflected or induced currents springing up on the other side, by
means of which the two inHueuces will be commingled.
The reason why induced currents spring up has yet to be explained;
and very likely the interaction between two centres of influence may be
much more complicated than I have here supposed; but I think what I
have stated will be found to throw some light upon the problem--
( 1) \\'hy declinations ha Ye effect ; (2) why they have no necessary
connection with aspects; and (3) why they are similar in nature to
conjunctions.
I may add that, in my opinion, parallels, although of the same
nature as conjunctions, arc slightly less powerful and lasting. It 1s
only natural to suppose that there would be some slight dissipation of
force in the process of reflection or induction-whichever term be
preferred. My experience supports this conclusion ; but I will not
insist upon it, as I may be wrong.
LEO.
Mr. Asqnith introduced the Welsh Disestablishment Bill on April 26

The Moon was ihr.n in Capricorn in the Queen's ninth honse; but, being in
square to Saturn, the prospects of the Bill cannot be brilliant, and the
majorities obtained at the di\'isions have, up to the present, been so small
that the Lords will probably summon up courage to reject it.
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of ~eptune anb 3uptter.
A CONJUNCTION ofNeptuneandJupiter takes place onJune 1st,

as probably all astrological students are aware. This conjunction
and its effects are worth observing and recording. It is needless to
mention that all persons born on June 1st in any year will now be
under the influence, by transit, of their Sun, in conjunction of both
Neptune and Jupiter. Surely, if transits have any effect, this transit
should prove a very powerful one.
Now, if all astrological students would do their best to obtain records
of the effect of this transit, and forward them for publication to the
Astrologers' Magazine, they would each be contributing greatly to
the advance of this particular branch of the science.
We require to know what effect these transits produce in the lives
of persons born on June 1st in any year. Well authenticated horoscopes,
with time taken to the minute, are of course desirable, but, failing this,
events happening to any persons born at any time 0n any 1st of
June will be of considerable value. It is only by observations of
this description that we can hope to place the science of Astrology
upon a firm basis. If all will help ever so little, the result will certainly
be appreciable. In well authenticated and accurate horoscopes, it
might be well to notice any effects where this conjunction falls upon
the Radical Moon or M.C.
However, enough has been said to indicate the lines of observation,
if any students are inclined to undertake them.
It it worth notice that this conjunction takes place in n 13.9, which
is close to n 17.54, the reputed Ascendant of London, whilst on June
3rd., the Sun is in conjunction with Neptune in the 14th degree
of n; and on June 4th the Sun will be in conjunction with Jupiter,
also in the 14th degree of n. Added to this the New Moon of the
3rd of June takes place between the before-mentioned conjunctions
of the Sun!
If, as some think, Neptune is a benefic, then we have a New Moon
in the Ascendant of London besieged by two benefics, and Saturn in
trine ! Can the square of Mars work much evil under the circum-
stances? In any event, there can be no harm in recording the results.
From a Meteorological point of view, the conjunction of Neptune
and Jupiter, and their subsequent conjunctions with the Sun, may be
expected to produce intense heat and fine weather generally, thunder-
storms perhaps excepted.
AQUARIUS,
ttbe $tubente' ¢orner.
BY " RAPHAEL,"
T HE nativity of Mrs. Besant in last month's Magazitu is very

interesting . In her auto-biography, published by Unwin, she
mentions a kind of nervousness or timidity which she experiences
before giving a public discourse, and, despite the hundreds of
lectures, etc., which she has given, there is still that feeling of timidity
beforehand ; but, as soon as she gets before her audience, it instantly
vanishes, and she feels ready for any emergency, In her nativity, this
is signified by W afflicted in the first house, and the 0, ? and ~ in
the seventh, the former producing the nervousness, the latter the
courage, for, as soon as one meets a public assembly, the influence of
the seventh house comes into play. In her case this house is
very strong.
Students may wonder why, with the presence of those planets in
the seventh, her marriage was so unfortunate. The cause is not far to
seek. Those planets in the seventh are much afflicted, and W is in
her husband's seventh in her nativity, consequently we find that she
herself was, in a great measure, the cause of the trouble, chiefly
through changes in her religious views. W people always chafe under
restraint, and bonds and ties of whatever nature are irksome to them,
not because they wish to break them, but because they value absolute
freedom and independence.
The position of ~ on the cusp of the fifth makes a very pure-
minded person.
" Sepharial" attributes the native's great oratorical powers to lj
being in ~, a voice sign, in o 2, the latter ruling the second house.
It so happens that my ~ is in n , a voice sign in o 2 , lady of my
second, but my oratorical powers are of the worst possible description ;
in fact, I have none. It may be thought that ? in my Ascendant has
something to do with it, but he is * 2 and ~ , so if "Sepharial's"
theory be correct, surely I ought to possess a little, but I possess none !
Now, in my opinion, the position and elevation of ~ have something
to do with Mrs. Besant's eloquence; by position, I mean, lj being
abovethe earth . W is in the Ascendant, which makes the mind keen,
sensitive, and very intuitive, hence thoughts and ideas flow into her
mind without mental effort ; in fact, I should not be surprised if, at
times, her tongue gave utterance to language and ideas which the mind
has scarcely shaped.
Sstrologtcal <trtttctsms
..
THE following criticism is taken from the Daily Telegraph of
April 6th 1894.
" From the organ of English Astrology called The Future it appears that
Lord Rosebery could not help being Prime Minister even had he wished.
As far as can be ascertained his lordship was born when ' Mercury was in
the martial sign Aries,' and while the ' Moon was in a zodiacal parallel (in
declination) with Mars.' Anybody who comes into the world under such a
happy combination is ' noble, imperious, versatile, powerful in intellect,
acute, self-reliant, stern, able in government, fit for much business, fond of
learning, an orator, temperate, skilful in counsel, politic, beneficent, wise,
successful, and a proper person to be ambassador or statesman.' With all
these attributes could anybody resist being Prime Minister? What credit,
Mark Tapley might ask, is there in being First Lord of the Treasury under
such conditions ? The same reliable authority points out that Parliament
might have gone on very well this session (for it commenced under favorable
astrological auspices) were it not that the solar eclipse which takes place to-
day happens in Aries, close to the place occupied by Uranus at the birth of
the Prime Minister. The astrologer admits it is difficult to divine what these
configurations import, but 'in all probability the Government will have to
fight a severe battle early in April to retain power, and an appeal to the
country is not improbable.' There is a hint in the same article that a man
born under Lord Rosebery's star can hardly avoid being winner of the
Derby.''
The individual who is the cause of the foregoing pertinent criticism is a
Mr. A. J. Pearce, the Editor of Future a periodical that originally appeared
monthly at threepence. It comprised 16 pages. Owing to the amount of
success (?) it received, its price was raised to sixpence, the quantitf and
quality of its matter being the same . Yet, even with this duplication of the
original price it could not have paid expenses, for it again advanc,d iii price
but not in size, one shilling being the amount for it, and it being a "quarterly"
production instead of a monthly as heretofore.
The Editor of it has been our avowed opponent since we started, and has
not hesitated to draw largely on his imagination for traducing us, when he
could not find,just cause for so doing, except, may-be some jealousy at our
success, which he, with his vaunted ability, could not boast of. The phrase
in above extract, "as far as can be ascertained, his lordship (Lord Rosebery)
was born when Mercury, &c., vide supra," This phrase carries its own con-
demnation and death warrant, for how is it possible to make such a rash
assertion when Pearce states the time of his birth is not known, and he has
based his remarkable delineation on the planet's places at noon! I I Notice the
list of virtues Pearce ascribes to one born with these configurations (Mercury
in Aries and Moon in zodiacal parallel (in declination with Mars) . How many
hundreds were born with these positions? No wonder the Daily Telegraph
pertinently exclaims" with all these attributes, could anybody resist peing
Prime Minister ?" But what about the hundreds who have these aspects, &c.,
in their horoscope, and who-although they might like to be Prime
Minister never will. Pearce goes into speculate what certain configurations
in the horoscope import, but as he does not know the time, why did he not
let well alone . In the case of the Prince of Wales he knew his time of birth,
and yet with this information he made a pretty mess of it, for all his
predictions as to his coming to the throne were wrong, and it is worthy of
26o ASTROLOGICAL SOCIETIES.
note that in Zadkiel's Almanac for this year he has not attempted to fore-
shadow coming events in the case of the Queen and the Prince of Wales,
which is remarkable to say the least of it. The concluding passage in above
extract is decidedly amusing . This literary vaporising of Pearce's is
calculated to do the science of Astrology lasting damage, and gives the critics
an opportunity to gird at Astrology. Pearce is old enough to know better,
but what else can be expected from him !
APHOREL.
Bstrologtcal Soctettea.
\)\TE announced some months ago our desire to 'form an Astrological
Society, and asked for those who might be interested in the subject to
write us, so that in the event of a sufficient number of names being received,
a start might be made. We may at once say we were not very sanguine as
to the result, and our ideas were confirmed, for so few names were received
that we thought it wise to abandon the idea. In "Raphael's Almanac" for
1891 he suggested the formation of such a society, but it seeml> that it is not
to be, at all events at present. The proprietors of this magazine with a few
other astrological friends formed a small society some years ago, for the
investigation and study of astrology, and the "modus operandi" was as
follows. Horoscopes were drawn and copies distributed amonst the members,
and at the weekly meeting each member gave his delineation and his reasons
for what he asserted. When all had given their judgments, the one who
knew particulars about the map stated them at length, and discussions upon
varied points in connection were closely gone into . Certain members made
a special study of a certain house, one took the 10th, another the 7th, and so
on; and by reliable data which the members possessed we were enabled to
corroborate or reject many aphorisms that had come before us in the
obtainable books on Astrology.
The " orb " theory was thoroughly thrashed out by us at an early stage,
and we believed we were the means of the absurdity of these long orbs being
published-if the new aspects :::.LL It) were to be considered. In cases, where
practicable, we would seriously recommend two or three students to meet
at stated intervals ( say once a week ) and compare notes, working upon the
plan we adopted, unless a better one suggests itself to them, for the inter-
change of ideas on such an abstruse subject as astrology will enable one
perhaps to view a position or an aspect from an entirely different stand-point
to that previously conceived. Should this be practicable, and anything
occurring in the course of Astrological investigation they may not be clear
upon, we shall be pleased to render them what aid we can, if they will send
maps and queries in.
The opposition of the Sun and Saturn from Aries-Libra, the first and
seventh houses of England, resulted, as we expected, in some trouble abroad.
There was an attack of Mussulmans upon Hindus in the Malabar district of
India at that time; and the German Emperor is reported to have made over-
tures to the Czar in the direction of that desirable consummation-European
· disarmament, but being made at such a time it inevitably failed.
_.. , ;:.
'Roteson 1Rece.nt
Je"ents.
Professor Falb is not a good man to follow. He was fearfully out in the
weather last year, and he is now daring to prophesy about what will happen
in 1899, when the great volume of this planet must inevitably collide with the
comet of 1666, which, coming just before the fire, was looked upon by the
people of the time as of most malign import. This c0met returns again in five
years from now, and whether it portends a recurrence of the Home Rule
fever, or only an ordinary rinderpest, no astrologer will commit himself by an
attempt at predicting. Professor Falb, however, knows no such word as
hesitation where prophecy is co::icerned, and therefore tells us that a collision is
certain. He is not at all confident that the comet, being of light material,
will get the best of it; but he thinks it highly possible that, if his theory be
correct-viz., that the comet is mainly composed of carbonic acid gas-a
large proportion of the earth's inhabitants will be poisoned, and that those who
survive will have a magnificent spectacle of shooting stars afforded them . It
is not stated whether the Professor has up to date made any arrangements
about his will, or if he has insured himself on the tontine system. These are
matters that want clearing up.
* * * * *
Delhi at present rejoices in the possessio:1 of a remarkable fortune-teller,
whose exploits, according to a correspondent, are causing much excitement.
"The Indian community here," he says," is put into a ferment of excitement
just now owing to the wonderful and strange revelations made by an Indian
"Joshi" or astrologer. The man has taken up quarters in the Chandui Chauk,
and so extraordinary and correct are his predictions that people in large num-
bers flock to him to have their destinies unravelled. It is rumoured that even
Europeans have paid the man a visit and have come away not only satisfied, but
full of wonder. He is reported to be making over Rs. 40 per diem, his charges
being Re. 1 for every question put to him, and it is strange to have to record
that the man appears to have the power of second sight or rather to be able to
anticipate the questions he is to be asked. He is either a very clever impostor
or a wonderful phenomenon, for he places no restriction on the questions he
should be asked, so that from the most important to the most trivial queries
are put to him and answered correctly. He discloses the past and reveals the
future with equal facility. An Indian gentleman, well known and respected in
Delhi, visited the" Joshi" with the express object of testing his capabilities for
thought-reading, and on being admitted into the "Joshi 's " presence, the latter
at once said, " I know what you have come to ask; you wish me to tell you the
date and hour of your birth," and mirabile dicllt. The "Joshi" furnished the
gentleman with every particular of his birth, giving the correct date and c·1en
specifying the hour of the occurrence. To say the least of it, the man does
most extraordinary things.-fodia,i Mirror.
* * * * *
On 13th April, Mr. Morley introduced the Registration Bill. The Moon
was not badly placed with a sextile to Jupiter, but the Sun's opposition to
Saturn is ominous, and events have since shown that the Bill will certainly
undergo change, even if it should pass.
LETT:!RS TO THE EDITOR,
The transits of the D are said to cause all the daily passing events of a
man's life as she transits the ~ *• o 8 or O of any particular house.
? and 2'- are held to be more powerful in their transits than the rest, and
their effects last about a year. I suspect there is great power in transits,
and I would recommend them particularly to the consideration of the artist,
though not as they respect the houses or their lords, but as they respect the
places of the lights or the angles. I have always observed those times to be
most unfortunate to a native when the luminaries are in d, D, or 8 to the
radical places of the infortunes, especially if they happen to square their own
places at the same time, or if the preceding lunation was in an evil place.
Some remarkably evil event is generally at hand when the 0 is in 8 and the
D in D at the same time to a radical ma:lefic.-Wilson's "Dictionary of
Astrology."
* * * * *
In " Sepharia:l's" lectures on Astrology, he ca:lled attention to the fact
that the April eclipse fell upon the Queen's radica:l Mars, and he predicted
that it would " stir up some seditious movements in the country, and secret
enemies to Her Majesty's Government." This was fulfilled on April 14th
and 22nd, when two Anarchists were arrested in London, and sufficient
evidence was forthcoming to show that their arrest had probably prevented
the loss of many lives. But at Her Majesty's birth, Venus was close to Mars,
and the New Moon, fa:lling near Mars, seems to have acted through Venus as
well, thus completing " Sepharia:l's" prediction for January of "a pleasant
event of a domestic nature; the. Queen will have cause for pleasure in her
children." On April 19th occurred the Roya:l Wedding at Coburg, when one
of Her Majesty's grand-daughters was married. The Queen was present at
the marriage, which was followed by the announcement of the engagement
between the Czarewitch and Princess Alix of Hesse. Thus the secondary
direction of the DP. * ~ J'l.,which technically measured to January, acted
in April. The reason for this is that a lunation is able to stimulate a
direction into activity before it is technically due, and a:lso to revive it after it
is apparently past. If a direction to any planet is due, the student should
examine the position of the lunations with regard to that planet ; for if the
planet is strongly aspected by some lunation, the direction will then act,
whether it is apparently due or not. This often explains why directions do
not measure exactly to events.

Letteu of general interest alone are in..erted . Correspondents desiring reply must
N.B .-Writers of signed articles are alone responsible for the opinions therein
contained.
In re transit Neptune, page 180, your March number, has "Aquarius"

noticed that on the approaching birthday of Prince George (June 3rd, 1894)
there will be a conjunction, not only of Sun and Neptune, but also Moon and
Jupiter, trine to Saturn. This is the more peculiar, as at birth Neptune was
on Ascendant, Jupiter on Zenith, Moon on Descendant, and Sun on Nadir.
After this, George of W a:les should become George V. of England.
A. BAUR.
MELBOURNE,
VICTORIA,
SIR,--1 have a few words to say on astrological matters; but, first, let me
offer sincere greetings from a far-off land to you and all who have so well and
ably assisted in carrying on the Astrologers' Magazine, which is doing such
excellent work, and . in such good style, to further the interests of Astral
science.
Up to the present time, your magazine is pre-eminently the work of all
works in print on the grand old science, and, if you continue its career on the
same lines, the valuable store of information will soon be enormous, and
cannot fail to raise the faithful and studious advocate of the science to the
proper respect and position he deserves.
The lessons on Astroiogy by "Aphorel_" were most clearly given, and will
start many beginners and some more advanced on the right path.
The symbols of the degrees of the zodiac are a most interesting and
valuable collection of items, which are quite startling in the way they strike
home, when the correct ascending degree at birth is known, and, as I believe,
I have a considerable number of such (thanks to "Sepharial" for his price-
less system of rectification); I for one can fully appreciate them, though I
have not the slightest idea how they are obtained. I hope you will be ableto
complete the series of symbols quickly, for others, as well as myself, are
anxiously waiting for the remainder of the signs.
A word re "Sepharial's" rectification scheme. I have carefully read the
letters and arguments of those who wrote rather doubting the system, but saw
nothing to practically disprove any part of it. The statement made by one
writer that in some cases the pre-natal epoch would occur before marriage
cannot easily be entertained as an argument. Such things have been and
will be, both in high and low life, but I fully appreciate the value of "mum "
where there is a doubtful case.
In my own experience I have been able to prove the correctness of the
method, for I have the times of several births noted most minutely by the
attending surgeon expressly, and the rectificatio,icorrespondsalmost to a tick!
In two cases I happen to know the date of the pre-natal epoch (I mean the
material one}, and they both come out correctly as to date.
Mere opinions, no matter how learned the authors may be, are of very
little, if any, use on such subjects, unless they are the absolute result of prac-
tical observation and experience, for these are the only sources from which the
truth in such matters can be obtained. The descriptions and characteristics
of the Ascending signs, which are now being contributed to the magazine,will
be of the highest value when completed, and the ·most sincere thanks of.
students in all parts of the world are due to " Sepharial" for his gifts of
clear and advanced teachings.
And now of a few stumbling blocks. It seems to me that the literature of
the science is sadly deficient in three very important features, and, in so far
as these are concerned, the standard works on the science are almost value-
less. I refer to the judgment of Nativities in describing the personal appear-
ance and stature of the native; the probabilities of and time of marriage, with
description of ·marriage partner, and the estimate duration of life. Although
we are often correct in one or all of these matters, yet it seems rather by the
hazardous chance of such rules that we have, than by their soundness.
With regard to the time of death, the investigation of Alan Leo, recently
given in your columns, may lead up to something of a more definite character.
LETTERS TO THE EDITO!t,
We read o( the late poet, Dryden, and others, predicting the time of
death, even to the day, from the horoscope of birth, and if these things have
been done, or can be done with any scientific certainty, then it is evident that
the means by which this may be arrived at are either held back or the true
method is not known to the writers of the standard works.
Certainly, all the rules and descriptions of personal appearance and
stature, by means of rising signs, or planets therein, or aspects thereto, or
faces of the signs, &c., &c., will fail sii times out of twelve, which raises a
grave doubt as to whether there is anything reliable .about them.
Amongst several cases in my possession, my own is a striking example:-
Cancer rising-a short person ; Moo11 in Scorpio-a short person; Saturn,
the most elevated planet, trine Ascendant from the tenth house in sign Pisces
-short person; whereas I am six feet one inch and a-half without my boots.
Now, I cannot find any indication of this in the figure by any of the ordinary
rules. The Sun, Mars, Venus, and Mercury are posited in Virgo (fourth
house), which may have something to do with it, but this is scarcely the
source from which we should look for· the result. I have lately been watching
the Moon's latitude, which seems to ha\'e some influence in the matter, but l
ha\'c not yet sufficiently investigated this to be any_way certain.
I have no doubt but that numbers of students are often much puzzled to
know how to decide in this when the native has not been seen, or shirk it
altogether, as I frequently <lo, through want of confidence, and it would be a
great service if you or any of your experienced correspondents can throw any
new light on these important branches which may tend to a more reliable
judgment.
Another subject comes to mind wl1tch requires a great deal more practical
attention than it seems to be receiving, viz., the Part of Fortune and the
Moon's Nodes. I am surprised to see these points so lightly thrown aside by
modern writers, while the reasons given for doing so seem the result of opinion
and not of practice. We are told that, as they are not material objects,they
can have no influence, but this is a very poor argument in the face of many
astrological and natural facts. The cusps of the twelve houses are not
material objects, but are merely divisions of space, and yet those who discard
the former symbols accept these as powerful influences.
All the divisions of the zodiac come under the same heading, and yet some
mysterious magnetic influence is conveyed therefrom. Raphael says we don't
study the zodiac enough, which I think is very true, for the best judgments
arc often derived from the reading of zodiacal influence.
Why should not the Nodes and the Part of Fortune be magnetic points?
The true answer must come only from practical experience in their use. The
discovery of new planets is not a reasonable excuse for discarding those
symbols which were found efficacious by our predecessors, any more than a
new medical remedy obliterates the curative powers of the herbs described by
Culpepper.
The results (practical) of their use by those who are still in the habit of
using them would be of value to those who are searching for truth, and no
medium is so valuable as your impartial magazine for the purpose.
Hoping my inquiries and remarks are not too lengthy to find favor in
your columns.
I am, yours faithfully,
"ZAaIEL." .
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<tlaubtus]Ptoleml?on "Snnual Pertobst"

or tbe "process."
TO those of our students who are investigating the " Process"
system of directing, as set forth on page 150, vol. iii., and on
pages 8, 33, 124-,and 150 in the present volume (iv.), we think it well to
give in extmso what Ptolemy says on the subject :-
" Number the years from the period of birth, and take the same number of
succeeding signs from the prorogatory place, at the rate of a sign for a year,
and the lord of the last sign will be the chronocrater for the last year.
"In months the same rule is to be observed, viz., to reckon the number of
months from the month of the birth, and take a corresponding number of
signs from that which belongs to the chronocrater of the present year,
allowing twenty-eight days for each sign . It is likewise the same in days, for
the number of days from the day of the birth must be taken in a similar way
from the signs which belong to the month, allowing for each sign two days
and a third. The ingresses that are made on the places of those periods
should also be observed, for they have no small share in producing the event.
The ingresses of Saturn made on the places of the general periods should be
particularly observed, as should those of Jupiter on the places of the angular
periods-Mars, the Sun, Venus, and Mercury on the places of monthly
periods, and the transits of the Moon over those of the diurnal periods. It
must also be observed that general chronocraters have the greatest power in
producing events. The particular ones assist or oppose them according to
their respective natures, but the ingresses increase or diminish the event.
The place of prorogation, therefore, shows the true nature and quality of the
event and its duration, as does also the lord of the general times, and that planet
also to whom the term belongs, owing to the familiarity of the planets from the
period of the geniture, to those places which are influenced from the beginning.
The nature also of the event, whether good or evil, is shown by the nature of
those chronocraters, whether benefic or malefic, and by their sympathy and
antipathy at the beginning with those places they governed. But the time in
which events happen is chiefly shown by the relative position of the annual or
monthly si'1}s with the places that cause the events, and likewise by the
M
266 ·cI.A.UD!US PTOLEMY ON "ANNUAL PERIODS."
planetary ingresses. The luminaries also operate according as they behold

the annual or monthly signs; for if they are agreeably configurated with the
operative places in the nativity, and also at the ingresses, they are beneficial;
but, if otherwise, they are productive of evil. For when they are in evil
configuration to the said places, and contrary in condition they are found in
square or opposition at the time of transit, they will cause evil ; but if they do
not square or oppose, but are otherwise configurated, they will not be so
injurious.
"If the lord of the time and of the ingress be the same planet, if it be
good, the benefit will be extreme ; if evil, the evil will be excessive. If such
planets have dominion also at birth-and, indeed, wherever all the
prorogators, or most of them, operate on one particular place, and to one and
the same end; or even if they be not so constituted, if all the times and
periods have a series of benefic or malefic occurrences-they will produce
everything in the extreme, whether good or evil."
Bstrologl?anb mebicine.
T O properly prescribe for all the ailments incidental to humanity, a

thorough knowledge of Astrology is a si11eq1ui non, and, in
addition to this, the prescriber or adviser should possess sound, reliable
judgment. A fully qualified M.D. who possesses the above is a
benefactor to the whole community, and cannot be too highly esteemed ;
and yet there are many who, although they have not been able to
become qualified M.D.'s, have been able, by prescribing a few of the
simple herbs to be used in certain forms, to alleviate pain, and create,
quite unintentionally, a repute in their neighbourhood for curative
abilities. Were it possible that an horoscope of such alleviators of
pain were procurable, we should find evidence of sound, reliable
judgment, we are confident . We have been induced to pen these
remarks because our contemporary has thought fit to state that
"no astrologer, who has not received a medical education, is
competent to advise as to likely remedies" (vide page 152). We are
not aware whether our friend "Casael" has received a medical
education ; but, whether he has or not, we must judge by results, and it
is a matter of gratification to us to be able to say that he has done a
deal of good, judging by what we know and what we hear. Our
contemporary finds fault with, or sneers, at every earnest seeker after
truth who does not blindly follow his leading or adopt his measures.
We quite agree that a medical education would prove of immense
benefit to one who Nature has gifted with the sympathy and tastes
necessary for the act of healing aided by the knowledge of Astrology,
but does our critic claim to come under that category? \Ve are not.
ASTROLOGY AND MEDICINE,
aware that he has obtained either his Bachelor or his M.D. degree; but as
we do not claim to know everything, we are open to be enlightened on the
point. We can only hope that such discouragement as he throws upon
earnest truth-seekers, in whichever branch of Astrology they may make
their special study, will not deter them from persevering, especially in
the botanical portion. We note he runs down Horary Astrology (vide
Text-book), and yet page after page of his paper is filled with its
tenets.
In the old herbals, no herbs are assigned to either Uranus or
Neptune, as they were not then known, and here is an opportunity for
Astro-Botanists, for if certain herbs are influenced by the planets
known to our forefathers, other herbs must be in sympathy with the
newly- discovered planets Uranus and Neptune, and here there
is ample scope and an unexplored field, which perhaps Mr. Pearce,
with his superior (?) knowledge, can apportion to these mystic
planets.
We are aware that all is not gospel the old herbalists (Culpepper
included) teach; for instance, their remedies for what they called the
"pin and web" (cataract) and stone in the bladder (lithiasis) are
useless. In our opinion, a true herbal, "up to date," has yet to be
written, and who knows but that one who may read these lines is the
appointed one for such a task. All must not forget that "old customs
die hard," but that must not deter the truth-seeker, no matter what
amount of villifying may be hurled upon him, for, as a rule, their
venom arises from jealousy, especially if such antagonism emanates
from people who have Saturn in Ascendant in square to both Uranus
and Mars, and both Mars and Uran us in opposition from the ninth and
third house.
Professor Falb has scored a success. He predicted a destructive

earthquake for the 4th or 5th of May, and one occurred in Greece on the
early morning of the 6th. This was the time of the Taurus New Moon,
which was in opposition to Uranus in Scorpio.
* * * * *
At the May lunation, we predicted "accidents by sea and land, and
explosions." On the 7th May, 4.10 p.m., there was a nitro - glycerine
explosion at Waltham Abbey, in England, by which four lives were lost and
several injured. Saturn was rising at the time. On the next day, there was
a bomb explosion in Rome, supposed to be the work of anarchists. On the
nth, there was a similar explosion in Paris. No one was killed on
either occasion. On the 21st, a bomb was discovered in Paris, but the fuse
was extinguished before it could explode.
?tbe lDegreesof tbe Zobtacanb tbeti 1Rature.
BY "APHOREL.''
I N the works of the ancient writers on Astrology, we find certain

peculiarities ascribed to various degrees of each sign of the zodiac
that are absent from the pages of the modern authors. I think, without
exception, they appear in all the older works, but whether they all wrote
from experience, or whether they copied one another, I am not able to
say. As, however, it may interest students who may not possess the
writings of our predecessors, I will give an example, which is taken
from Wilson's Dictionary of Astrology :-
" Degrees.-Certain degrees, or parts of the zodiac, supposed to possess
certain qualities wholly imaginary; but to render this Dictionary complete, I
shall insert the table of them, which is as follows :
A TABLE
Exhibiting the Affections and Significations of the Degrees in each Sign

of the Zodiac.
Cl) al Cl)
>,
-"= ... ...al
0
J, •
ell Cl)
J,
zc.,
Cl)~
Cl) . ~
"3
Cl) IC:
Cl) · ~
Cl)
Cl) ....
•
Cl)
Cll.!a<i 0
a
Cl)
Cl)
v~
• 0
ci.
.... IC:
I':: Cl) ...I':::,
Cl)
Cl)
6'.oo to·S
a t'D~
Cl) ...
toell r.n ... 0
"O
Cl)Cl)
.2 a
o-~
0 .....
I':: ...
iii Cl) Cl) C1) Cl) · ~ Cl)o
i,i, ~> .... Cl)
::::0 <t:: N ·--:~
0"'
~ •0 µ..
C1) o--l 0 C1) 0 Po.. <l)< ~bl)
0 0 o.s
I
0 6.u.16
'Y' 8.15 .30 9.22 8.20.29 3.16 24.30 0 19
23.29
5.12 6.7.8
~ I I.21.30 5.17.24 7.15.28 3.30 0 12.20 3.15.27
24.25 9.10
n 16.26 5.22.30 4.12.22 0 16.30 2.12.17 0
7.27 26.30
II
er,, { 2.10 8.12.27 12.28 20 18.30 12.17.23

es:, 23.30 14 26.30 9 to 15 1.2.3-4-15
S\, 5.15.30 8.23 30 IO 20 6. 13.15 18.27.28 2.5.7
25 22.23 .28 19
8.20 8.16 8.13.16 3.14
n.11 12.30 5.30 22 10.17 21.22
0
20
..,.._ 10.21 0
5.20.30 15.27 5.18.27 30 17.20.30 0 3.15.21
q..25 8.22 9.10.22 7.18.20
111. 4.17.30 3.30 24 14.29 23.27 19.28
7.12.15 x.7.8
t 2.12.30 5.24 9.19.30 12 23 0
24.27.30 18.19 13.20
Vj' II.30 IO 10.19 7.22.30 15 7.17.22 26.27 12.13
25 24.29 28.29 14.20
- 5.21.27 15.25.30 9.21.30 13 4
1.12.17
25 22.24.29 18.19 7.16
17.20
* 10.23.30 20.28 { 1;s22 I 6.18 .30 0 25
4.9.24
27.28
0 13.10
INFANTILE MORTALITY.
Against 'Y' are found 8.15 and 30 in the masculine column, and g and 22 in
the feminine column ; this shows the first eight degrees of 'Y' to be masculine,
the ninth feminine, from thence to the fifteenth masculine, from the fifteenth
to the twenty.second feminine, and from thence to the thirtieth masculine; in
the like manner the first three are dark degrees, from thence to the eight light
degrees , from thence to the sixteenth dark, and from thence to the twentieth
light, the twenty -ninth is also a light degree, the rest are indifferent . There
are no smoky degrees in 'Y', The twenty-fourth and thirtieth are void
degrees. The sixth, eleventh, sixteenth, twenty-third, and twenty-ninth are
pitted or deep degrees. There are no azimene degrees, and the nineteenth
degree is fortunate.
'' If the Ascendant or its lord be in any of these degrees in a nativity, it is said
to denote something in the native's fortune or appearance corresponding; thus,
if in a masculine degree, he or she will be more masculine ; if in a feminine,
more feminine. If in a light or dark degree, more fair or dark; and if in a
smoky degree, more dim and swarthy, with dull intellect . Void degrees
render the native empty and void of knowledge . Deep pitted degrees subject
the native to deep marks of the small-pox or scars, &c., or, according to other
11apient gentlemen, they cause an impediment in speech, troubles, and
disputes, in which they are sunk as in a deep pit. The ai:imene degrees
make them crooked, lame, or deformed, according to the nature of the sign
and the part signified by it, and this, they say, is an invariable rule. The
fortunate degrees, if on the cusp of the second house, or if the lord of the
second be in such a degree, or if 2+be in a fortunate degree, the native will
acquire riches and honor. Such nonsense as this deserves no comment.
This is \Vilson's opinion. I will next quote what Salmon says on
the subject.
(To be continued.)
3nfanttle mortaltt\?.
(Conclttsion.)
A S I intend to refe~ again to this subject, I will close this present

article with an answer to the last question of " Isis" -
" How is one to tell which aspects are going to have effect, and
which not?"
It is upon this important point that we must chiefly concern
ourselves, once having decided that the child cannot survive infancy.
Now, the twelve signs of the zodiac must be considered. as the
physical body of the infant, the positive signs ruling the exterior, and
the negative signs the interior parts. And as these signs rise on the
Ascendant by the process system, the aspects of the lord of the eighth
to the rising sign must be closely watched and studied with my
previous remarks as to positive and negative signs; but, before looking
for the time when the child will die, be sure that your judgment is
correctas to whether it will live or die. Then note the affliction of the
lord of the eighth to the significator; also the position of Saturn and
M2
2;0 . ON MOI,ES.
Mars, and the majority of the planets. Note carefully the nature of
the death, or illness likely to cause death, and that planet which points
to or causes the disease. Then when this planet or the lord of the
eighth afflicts the processed Ascendant, erect a map for this processed
Ascendant and progressive planet's places before giving your final
judgment. It is upon the lord of the eighth and the processed
Ascendant that you must fix your attention during the infancy state, to
be able to say when the child will die, and it is upoq the radical figure
that you must decide if the child will die. I do not wish to establish
this system as a definite rule. So far, I have found it more satisfactory
and reliable than any other system ; but, for the benefit of the science,
I hope students will forward us every case where they find this rule
does not apply. It is one of the most difficult things to decide with
the student as to whether the infant will survive or not, and it is useless
to decide which .aspect will have effect until this question is answered.
If those students who have been interested in this subject will forward
me their opinion, I shall he glad to refer again to this matter at an
early date.
"ALAN LEo."
©n _moles.
N EARLY all the old writers on Astrology in their works give

rules for telling the whereabouts of any moles, marks, or
excrescences that may be upon the various parts of the body, &c.; but
as many of my readers may not know what these rules are, I think it
well to give an extract from Lilly's Astrology (edited by Zadkiel), from
which work most of the older writers, and many of the modern ones,
have copied or adapted:-
" Observe what member of man's body the ascending sign repre-
sents; for upon that part of his body will the querent have a mole,
mark, or scar ; as if the Ascendant be ')", the same will be on the head;
if ~, it will be on the neck; if n, on the arms or shoulders, &c. (see
table following)-
P ARTS OF THE Bonv RULED BY THE TWELVE SIGNS.
Head and face. ,e: Reins and loins.
Neck and throat. l11. Secret members.
n Arms and shoulders. :f Hips and thighs.
Qo Breast and stomach. ],j' Knees and shins.
SL Heart and back. ~ Legs and ankles.
ll.Jt Bowels and belly. *Feet and toes.
" And also in the part ruled by the sign in which the lord of the
Ascendant is will there be another mark.
Digitized by Google
.
ON MOLBS • 2jI
CCThe sign on the cusp of the sixth house, and that in which the lord
of the sixth is, will give other marks on the parts they rule. Also the
sign in which the D is found will give a mark in that part it governs.
" If ? give the mark, it is dark, obscure, or black ; o' usually gives
a red mole; but if he be in a fiery sign, it is generally a cut or scar.
" If the sign or planet signifying the mark or mole be much afflicted,
the mark, &c., will be more obvious and eminent.
" If the sign or planet be masculine, the mark is on the right side of
the body ; but, if they be feminine, on the left side. And if the
significator of the mole, &c., be above the horizon, the mark or mole
will be on the forepart, or visible to. the eye, or on the outside of the
member, &c.; but if the planet be below the earth, it will be found on
the inside, or hinderpart, or not visible. If few degrees are on the cusp
of the house, the planet signifying the mole, &c., be in few degrees of
the sign, the mark, mole, &c., will be in the upper part of the member.
If they be in the middle of the sign, it will be in the middle of the
member, or part ruled by the sign. But if the latter degrees ascend,
or are on the sixth, or their lords, or D be in the latter degrees of a sign,
then will the mark, mole, or scar, be near the lower part of the
member. If your question be radical, and the time rightly taken, the
above rules will exactly hold good, And so will they (mutatis mutandis)
upon the body of the quesited : for if a person enquire concerning his
wife, then the sign on the seventh and its lord will show the woman's
marks; and the sign on the twelfth (the sixth from the seventh) and
its lord will show two other marks.
" Many times if the D be in d or 8 0, the querent has some
blemish in or near his eyes ; and this is even true if the d or 8 be in
angles, and D or 0 be afflicted by Mars.•
" And all these rules apply to the figure of birth, as well as horary
figure; but defects, such as protrusion of the breastbone, or a humped-
back, &c. (to persons born with qa or S\, rising), may sometimes be
found in lieu of moles or scars. For example, her present Majesty,
having ? in *,
which rules the feet, and situated near the cusp of the
twelfth house at her birth, has a weakness in her feet. Had one
testimony only existed, and ? been in *
elsewhere, she would have
merely had a mole on her foot."
* Note by "Zadkiel."-lf 2f. give the marks, it will be blemish or purple;
~ gives it yellow; ~, a pale, lead color; 0, olive, or chestnut; and D, a
whitish hue, or partly of the color of the planets she aspects. The infortunes
? and o', especially when together, or in exact aspect, mark according to
their position. If they be in the Ascendant, a mole, &c., will be in the face ;
if.in the secon<l, on the neck; in the third, on the arma, &c. · ·
ON MOLES •
•
It thus follows that every individual must have at least two moles, or
other marks, about them, if we take the following case as an example :
Ascendant 'Y' 6, if therein; 11Jton sixth, with D and ~ therein. 'Y' on
Ascendant rules head and face, if therein should give a mark on face.
11Jton sixth rules belly, ~ and D therein should give a mole on that part
of the body ; that given by if should be red, that resulting from D and
·~ of a pale lead color. I give the above as a simple example for the
student as a proxis. I will now give my own: lfl ascends, and ~ is
on the sixth house. if , ruling Ascendant, is near cusp of tenth in St,
o Regulus (a fixed star of the nature of if) ; l' , ruling sixth, is in
7E near cusp of fourth; the D is in * in fourth. I may also add W is
in sixth and in * D· These positions should give me five, viz., one on
the part ruled by lfl ; one on the °throat, ruled by ~ ; one on the back
from i! (ruling Ascendant) in St,; two on the feet, one given by l'
(ruling sixth) in *, and the other from the D in *. I therefore
should be the happy possessor of five; but, as a matter of fact, I am not,
as I can only lay claim to three, and not one of them is upon any of the
parts signified by the planets, &c., before-mentioned. I have one mole
(small, pale yellow) above the ankle on the inner side of the left leg,
one on the middle of the left arm, and one on the left eyelid (a small,
red excrescence), three in all, and not one of them agrees with the
indications in the rules given by Lilly. I have ~ in 1° 'Y', and the 0
in 6° 'Y' in fifth house, which may (?) give the one on the eyelid, but
there is no planet in either n or := ruling the arms and ankles.
Judging from the numerous examples Lilly gives in his Christian
Astrology, he had great faith in his rules, and I am convinced Lilly was
a true artist, and did 1iot concoct his figures to suit the events, but as
far as his rules have been applied by myself to horoscopes, I cannot
say much in favor of the dogma, and I notice that " Raphael" in his
last work-The Key to Astrology--entirely omits any reference to moles,
whereas in his Guides, there is a chapter and remarks on them. It
stands to reason that the rules cannot always obtain, for in many
instances the "human form divine " is entirely free from marks or
moles of any kind; and, according to the rules, everyone must have at
least two, as I showed in my first example. Therefore, I fail to see
how the rules can be "accommodated' ' to such persons, and there are
fuany 'on whoin marks are entirely absent. .
In some instances, the rules are verified, as in the case of my friend
"Sepharial "; but there are numerous cases, as I have shown by own
own natus, where they do not, and there is no doubt as to the correct-
ness of my horoscope, for the time stated agrees very closely with the
" rectified" figure; and, in addition, I have horoscopes of many whose
" mole " significations are quite it variance with the rules that are exta.iit.
THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE MUNDANE HOUSES, 273
Here is another subject for our astrological societies or other

students that requires investigation, and further light on the subject
will be gladly welcomed from whatever source it may come.
I would suggest the student referring to page 137 of Vol. I. of this
magazine in investigating this subject, inasmuch as " Sepharial"
therein gives rules, which, in some respects, are at variance with those
given-J.ly Lilly; but his experience warrants him in his utterances, and
we have repeatedly found verity in the rules which he has given.
"APHOREL,"
itbe Stgnttlcanceof tbe munbanebouses.

( Continued from page 184.)
T HE seventh house has signification of marriage . partners,

law-suits, public enmity, the grandmother on the mother's side
(being the fourth from the fourth), the children of brethren, tlie death of
private ei!emies, the long journeys of friends, also their religio,?, the
father's house of honor and credit.
It is a positive, masculine house, and rules the ~rts represented
by Libra.
The eighth house is the house of death, legacies, the wealth of the
wife, partner or public enemies, the sickness of brethren, the friends of
the father, etc. It is a feminine magnetic house, and has sympathy with the
eighth sign of the zodiac (Scorpio) ruling the part assigned to that sign.
The ninth house is the house of long journeys, religion, science, the
brethren of the wife, partner or public enemies, grand-children, the
sickness of the mother, secret enemies of the father, etc.
It is a masculine electric house in sympathy with Sagittarius, and
rules over the parts of the body signified by the sign.
The tenth house is the most important of all, denoting honor,
reputation, etc. All planets herein are especially strong. It is the
house of the father, the mother of partners' wife or public enemies, the
death of brethren, the secret enemies of friends, etc.
It is a feminine magnetic house under the rule of Capricornus, and
rules the knees and other parts affected by the sign.
The eleventh house is chiefly the house of friends, the wealth of the
father, the death of the mother, religion, and long journeys of brethren,
the children of partners and public enemies, etc., etc.
It is an electric masculine house, in affinity with the celestial sign
Aquarius, and rules those parts of the body under its jurisdiction.·
The twelfth house is the house of secret enemies, uncles on the
father's side, the sicknesses of the partners, and op·en·enemies, etc.
It is a feminine magnetic negative house, in sympathy with the sign
Pisces, and rules the parts of the body ascribed in this sign.··
munbane Bstrolog~.
NEW MOON,
3rd July, 1894,

45 min. a.m.
A T the moment of New Moon, the first decanate of Leo rises, and
Aries is on the midheaven with Mars, who has culminated.
There will be much scandal ; the upper classes (notably the Lords) are
adversely talked about, but at present they are secure, for Mars is
dignified. Activity in trade should be produced from the position of
Mercury and Mars' trine aspect. Jupiter, being close to London's
Ascendant, should be productive of important benefits to our city. The
lunation occurring in the twelfth house is an argument of secret foes,
and their machinations.
Trouble in Government circles and secret crime may be anticipated.
Mars going to the opposition of Saturn will produce anarchial or other
troubles; but the ruler of the M.C., being dignified and in elevation,
will keep them st>cure for the time, at all events. There will be much
political excitement, for the luminaries are squared by Mars.
_ At New York, finance improves; but, as Mars is close to the
Ascendant, notable strikes engage the attention of the authorities.
Accidents on railways may be expected, and the Foreign Office will
have a busy and exciting time-strange questions on international law
may c;rop up.
Notable cases in the Divorce Court appeared in May, in accordance with

our ,prediction,.
l)egrees of tbe Zobtac $,?mbolt3eb.
CANCER.
F IRST degree.-A well-fruited vine hanging upon an old wall

beneath the sunshine of a summer day.
It signifies a person of tender sympathies and strong attachments,
capable of extreme self-devotion to one who is beloved ; fruitful in good
acts, happy and content~d in disposition. One who will have enough
of the good things of life and will use them wisely. The native will
marry well, and frequently it will be found the native of this degree
abides long in one place, and "is held by strong associations to country
and to kin. It is a degree of Sympathy.
2nd degree.-A dog standing over a bare bone ; in front of it are
two others half starved.
It denotes a person of a very selfish and jealous nature, unpro-
ductive of any good to himself and of no use to his fellows ; a mere
hanger-on. The disposition is indolent, but what it lacks in energy it
supplies by suavity, finesse, and subtlety, so that the native is never at
a loss for the means to live ; but the native buys comfort at the
cheapest price, and 1s often a respectable beggar. It is a degree of
Indolence.
3rd degree.-A woman seated in an attitude of grief, her clothes
disordered, and her hair unkempt, holding some faded flowers in her
hands ; among the flowers are lilies and roses.
It indicates a person of fateful inclinations and strong passions,
whose life will be subject to the influence of the opposite sex, and who,
if not extremely cautious in those relations, will suffer injury and
perhaps disgrace. It points to one of weak will, but strong feelings,
which are apt to over-rule reason and experience. It is a degree of
Spoliation.
4th degree.-A well-appointed table, with the remnants of a feast
lying upon it.
It indicates a person of worldly tendencies, with an appetite for the
good things of life; which will not be denied. The nature is
extravagant and reckless, prone to all kinds of excess and passionate
impulses, whereby the fortunes will be most seriously damaged. These
things arise from a certain richness of heart and camaraderie,but good-
will in this individual finds expression mostly through the sensuous
nature. It is a degree of Sensuality.
DEGREES OF THE ZODIAC SYMBOLIZED,
5th degree.-A young tree, or sapling, bent about the middle, and
thence growing awry.
It indicates a person of warm affections, but incautious nature ; who
confides, without sufficient grounds, in those around him ; and is apt to
misplace his trust. To those of the female sex it is a baneful degree.
In general, it shows a loving and trustful nature without much know-
ledge of human weaknesses. It is apt to be bent, and perhaps broken,
by the storms of passion, and to lean where there is no real support. It
is a degree of Betrayal.
6th degree.-A woman, clothed in gaudy apparel, plays with some·
jewels in her lap.
It indicates a nature of wasteful and impractical habits, yet gifted
with some degree of savoirfaire and knowledge of human nature. The ·
native will be inclined to habits of excess, will be fond of dress and
ornamentation; fortunate in the acquisition of wealth, but wholly
unacquainted with its right use; good-hearted, but foolish and.
extravagant; liberal, and yet frequently unjust therein. A nature too
prone to externals and outward show. It is a degree of Semblances.
7th degree.-An iron gauntlet, a sword, and a scourge lying together .
upon the stump of a tree.
It indicates a person of strong personality, but of a tyrannous nature,
who, by force of arms and aggression, generally will press forward
regardless of the merits of others and insensible of their feelings. His
hand, though strong, is frequently unjust and cruel in its action,
impelled by the motive that "might is right"; and, when opposed, is
capable of extreme cruelty and selfishness. In certain natures the
influence of this degree generates the common-place "bully." It is a
degree of Self-assertion.
8th degree.-A dove lies upon the ground, while over it a snake is
poised in an attitude of attack.
It indicates on the one hand a nature capable of extreme self-
indulgence and licence; and, on the other, one who is apt to succumb
to worldly seductions. The influence of this degree acts most power-
fully to destroy domestic happiness and to fracture marital relations;
and the fate of the native will hang upon the nature and influence of a
subtile fascination for a secret attachment. It is a degree of
~elf-abandon.
9th degree.-A little village lying in a fertile valley.
It indicates one whose heart is full of native goodness, whose hand
is set to great work in modest ways, and whose patience, thrift, and
true humility will bring his work to perfection. There is very little
DEGREES OP THE ZODIAC SYMBOLI~ED. 277
aggression and no self-assertion in this nature; but, like the valley, it is
fruitful in good things because of its lowliness, while surrounding high
peaks of the mountains are barren. The native, though never famous,
will be always successful, even beyond his ambitions, which are modest
but steadfast. It is a degree of Contentment.
10th degree. - A wide spreading oak-tree, around the roots of
which are many young shoots ; while the birds of the season sing
among its branches.
It indicates a steady, strong, and reliable nature, which by much
industry comes at length to the fruits of its labour, and in the autumn
of life will be surrounded by the most grateful evidences of its own
energy and perseverance. While sustaining itself it will afford shelter
and comfort to others, both among its own kindred and among strangers,
so that with integrity and competence there will go honor and esteem
to enrich a good old age. It is a degree of Fruitfulness.
nth degree.-A stranded vessel on a low, sandy beach.
It indicates a person whose affairs in life will come to an unfortunate
end, or will oftentimes be totally arrested. The nature is one where
ambition is not joined to sµfficient experience or discretion; and, in
avoiding obvious rock:;, is liable to run upon unsuspected sandbanks.
Yet through all risks the native will hold together without serious
injury to himself, and will somehow always gain a new start in life
after each failure. The nature is hopeful and even confident ; but not
qualified for independent work. If a sailor or traveller, the native will
be in danger of shipwreck. This degree is fateful to those on the sea.
It is a degree of Obstruction:
I 2th degree.-A dagger lying beside a skull.
It denotes one of fatal tendencies, destructive to a degree; inclined
to cruelty and oppression. This person will need to hold his passions
in strong check or some fatality will surely come upon him. The
nature is melancholy and taciturn ; yet silently discerning, and capable
of keen feelings. " It makes not, but it mars; and with the hollow
eyes of death looks back with secret self-condemnation upon its
unfruitful work." The end of life is tragic. It is a degree of Undoing.
13th degree.-A caduceus between two moons, one crescent and
the other gibbous.
It denotes a person of extreme capacity in the pursuit of knowledge,
a penetrating mind, and retentive memory; the native will accomplish
wonders in the pursuit of the subtile sciences. The temper is changeful
like the moon, and subject to fits of hope and despondency of more or
less rapid alternation. The native is likely to travel mucb and to bo
" DIVINING ROD " IN BSSl!.X.
subject to many changes of fortune. But the chief characteristic is

versatility and aptitude in the gaining of knowledge. With the symbol
of Hermes dominant the native will either be a linguist, doctor, or a
dis,inguished scholar. It is a degree of Knowledge.
14th degree.-A bunch of spring flowers, over which is set a bright
star which flashes and sparkles in a deep blue atmosphere.
It indicates a person of a poetical and gentle disposition, fond of ·
sublime subjects and the study of nature in its gentler phases; may be a
botanist or astronomer, or one with a strong taste for such associations.
In early life this individual will rise to a good position, and if not born into
an illustrious family will marry a person of high rank or fame. In all
cases the native attains a good position and generally marries early into
a family devoted to the fine arts. It is a degree of Success.
15th degree.-A dais in which is set a throne, on the cushion of
which a dog is lying asleep.
It indicates a person of idle habits, to whom hard work and care
are foreign and distasteful; but who will, whether by watchfulness,
forces or strategy, attain to a good position and hold offices for which
he is not by nature qualified. It frequently produces a mere charlatan ;
or one who hides under a passive and indifferent exterior, a vicious and
spiteful nature. It is a degree of Usurpation.
"DIVINING ROD" IN ESSEX.

A remarkable instance of the successful use of the hazel twig, generally
termed the "divining rod," has just occurred ·at Cressing, near Braintree.
Many fruitless attempts had been made in the parish to find water, the boring
in several instances extending to great depths. Mr. E. Sach, of Jeffrey's
Farm, wanted a well provided for some cottages, they being without a water
supply, and he invited Mr. H. W. Golding, of the firm of Messrs. Ashley,
Adkins and Co., mat manufacturers, Bocking, who has acquired some skill
with the " rod," to look over the place. He did so, and near the cottages the
twig turned up, and, although every effort was made to keep it down, it could
not be done . Mr. Golding felt certain that water could be found there,
and men were at once set to work boring, with the result that an abundant
supply of water was found 22ft. below the surface.-The People, May 6th.
"Mars L.R. C.P ." writes:-" I am certain that new moons, full moons,and
the last remnant of dying moons have distinct influence. This has often been
evidenced to me in my midwifery practice. Why are labour pains strong during
a new moon and feeble at the end of the lunation ? Why are diseases of an
acute or inflammatory character in the first quarter, and more lingering and
chronic in the last? Why do medicines act better when the moon is at the
full, particularly a solar remedy given for a solar disease, e.g., gold in heart
dnea11e?.. ·. ·.,,.
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BY " RAPHAEL,"
I N the March number of th~ Magazine, there is an article on " The

Houses and Exaltations of the Plariets," .which is continued in
the June number. On page 171, it is stated that the inferior planets
~ and ~ , and the small planet d' (although d' is double the size of ~)
have two houses each because they move so swiftly, and that the other
planets, on account of their slow and ponderous motion, have only one
house each. The 0 and D are described as passive planets, and,
of course, require only one house, let their motions be what they will.
This reasoning would be very beautiful if it were correct.
But it is with the June article that I am chiefly concerned.
Because ~ is in t:,. to ::::::,so must the exaltation of W be in n .,
; but ~, the exaltation of J;,, is in o to .lrJ,
which is also in t:,. to ::::::
the recognised house of J;,• 1rJ, the exaltation of d' , is in o to 'Y',
the house of d' ; ~ is exalted in his own house ltJt ; and the D is
exalted in ~ in * to !!o. But, stay! She is a passive planet, and may
have ways and motions peculiar to herself. It therefore follows that,
to allot n as the exaltation of W, because that sign is in t:,. to ::::::, will
not bear examination, and from experience I may say it is not correct .
W possesses most power in ~, l11.and :::::: .
W is also well accommodated by this writer; but as it takes
160 years, or thereabout, for this planet to travel once through the
zodiac, the arrangement is certainly premature, to say . t~e least,
especially when we consider that we have no accurate ephemerides of
this planet prior to forty-five years ago. ,. ,
It is true I have laughed at the Dragon's Tail; but Cauda Leonis,
or the Lion's Tail, I never did laugh at. We are not tnld where to
find this Tail. I should also like to know how I can verify the position
of the invisible Moon, and what business it has with the Lion's .Tail.
That the D has an astral body, I do not doubt; but that it should be in
one place, and the D itself in another, is doubtful. .
I am not a believer in "mutual reception," as set forth by this
writer; neither do I believe because a man is popular, has the gift o/
the gab, or can affix "M.P." to his name, that he must be a genius or
wise. ~ is the "God of Wisdom ."
If ~ is exalted in his own house lll, he must, of necessity, be
debilitated in *; if not, then the " esse!3t~l dignit~es "~--~~the planets
ANSWERSTO CORRESPONDENTS.
are nothing. One might suppose, from what this writer says, that the
4jJlictionof ~ by Wis bmeficial; my experience of it is the reverse.
I attribute "Sepharial's " occult proclivities to the position of J;, in
his ninth house. The first, third, and ninth houses have a direct
influence on the mind ; the other houses affect the mind in an indirect
manner, such as the fifth through carnality, the eleventh through
friends; the seventh through public affairs, business, or marriage, &c.
'Re"tew.
"THE KEY TO PAt.MISTRv,'' hy M. C. Langridge. Sixpence.
Nichols and Co., 23, Oxford Street, London.
This little " Key" is well written and illustrated. The author
wisely says that " Palmistry and Astrology are inextricably connected."
The teaching contained in this little work is clear and to the point, and
can strongly be recommended to beginners. A more advanced work is
promised by the author, a copy of which we shall be glad to peruse.
W. MAYLAND.-(1)We do not see anyone, except on very special occasions,
and then only by appointment. It is useless calling at 12, Lugard Road,
as neither the editor nor the proprietors reside there. (2) There ii: an
occult signification in the inversion of the symbol of ? for the symbol of
Mars ( 0 ) ; but it will be the wisest course for you to use the accepted
symbol of Mars thus t in all cases to avoid confusion. _(3) Raphael's
Ma11ual is a good book, and we can strongly recommend it. (4) The
Primum Mobile, of Placidus de Titus, translated by Cooper, is the book
you want. We can supply you with one for 12/6. They are not often
met with.
W.P.-You wHI find the "Planetary Angels," or "spirits," alluded to in

Sibly'sAstrology, and also Barrett's Magus.
PEGAsus.-On the 21st of July the planet Uranus becomes "direct." We

regret we cannot give you the "period" or "cycle" of Neptune at
present.
G. '.PETTYaunior) .-The part of marriage is alluded to in the Doctrine

of N"tivilies, by Gadbury. And, as it is to many a novelty, we will
pve the extract in these pages as a curiosity at an early date.
· S:aa Lts't oll UsJSFULl3ooxs, PAGE 3 oF CovaR.
'Roteson 'RecentJel'ents.
We predicted "fires" at New York in May. On the x3th, when the Moon
was in opposition to Mars, Dr. Talmage's Brooklyn Tabernacle was destroyed
by fire, just after the morning service. This is the third time it has been
burnt, and each time it was on a Sunday. An inspection of Dr. Talmage's
horoscope would be of interest,
* * * * *
In Mundane Astrology, the third house seems to govern messengers in all
forms-Post Office, telegraph, telephone, railways, passenger steamers on
rivers, &c., and we suppose that among other things it governs cabs. The
third house was badly afflicted at the May lunation, and on the x6th
6,000 London cabmen went out on strike. The Moon was then in conjunction
with Saturn, which does not seem to promise them so much success as they
may have anticipated. Yet some good will probably come of it.
* * * * *
We predicted that" all classes from the monarch downward" would feel
the effects of the May afflictions, and this seems to have been the case in more
than one country. The Government met with great opposition over the
Budget (" Saturn's position is unfavorable for finance," we wrote), and
on the xoth May, they were only saved by a majority of ten on a
Budget division, owing to Parnellite absentions. Sixpence on the spirit duty I
Whisky lay closer to their hearts than Home Rule. On the x4th May,
Mr. Mundella had to resign the Presidency of the Board of Trade on account
of his private connection with a Company with which the Board would have
to deal. The majorities of the Government sank extremely low more than once.
On the 22nd May, the French Government was defeated, and the Cabinet
resigned.
* * * * *
The affliction of the 9th house in May coincided with the death of several
fairly well-known literary men, though none of them were of the very first
rank. On the x4th, Mr. H. Morley, Professor of English literature, died; on
the 20th, Mr. Edmund Yates, Editor of the World; and on the 23rd,
Mr. B. H. Hodgson, an eminent scholar and orientalist. On the 26th May,
the Hon. Roden Noel, a "minor poet," died.
* * * * *
"Sepharial's" prediction for May is being fulfilled as we write. The May
New Moon fell in square to the Queen's Jupiter, hence "Governmental
troubles "; and on page 239 we predicted, from the figure for the opening of
Parliament, that '' the path of the Government will be by no means smooth,
and their opponents will score many points against them." The Parnellite
Members, who had hitherto supported the Government, have, on several
occasions, abstained from voting, and the normal majority has dropped to an
ominously low figure, probably too low to support the Cabinet in its attitude
towards a hostile and destructive House of Lords.
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On May 24th, at 9.30 a.m., a successful operation was performed upon Mr.
Gladstone's eye for cataract. The Moon on that day was passing across his
Ascendant. Kabalists state that Mercury governs one of the eyes, and Mr.
_Gladstone has a good direction both solar and lunar to Mercury this summer.
We gave a list of his directions on page 178. Mercury is also a literary
planet, and we hear that Mr. Gladstone's translations from "Horace" will
be published shortly,
* * * * *
On page 233, we predicted from the lunation a notable case in the Divorce
Courts. This has been verified in the case of Dunhill v. Dunhill and
Baroness Ferichs, the petitioner obtaining a decree, with the custody of the
children . In connection with the same figure, we predicted the death of an
eminent man; this has been fulfilled in the death of Edmund Yates, the
novelist, editor of the World, &c.
BACK NUMBERS OF THE ASTROLOGERS' MAGAZINE .
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numbers of Vol. III. will be bound. Therefore, any friend who wish to
obtain any had better apply early.
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N.B .-Writers of signed articles are alone responsible for the opinions therein
contained .
DEAR MR. EDITOR,-Will you or" Sepharial" enlighten me on a matter

am in a fog over? In one of the early numbers it is said that the fourth house
is significant of the father, and the tenth of the mother. On page 184 of the
March number, the fourth house is said to rule the mother's affairs. On
page 219, "Sepharial" writes-" Colonel Olcott's mother died when the Moon
(ruler of the tenth, and natural significator of the mother) came to the
conjunction of Saturn by direction"; and on page 195, when speaking about
the fourth house, he says-" close sympathy for the mother." Does .
"Sepharial" m'.'an that the Moon is the natural significator of the mother ?
because in Colonel Olcott's map Cancer the sign ofthe Moon is on the tenth,
and in Mrs. Besant's, the same sign is on the fourth, with the Moon in it . On
page 207, it is said, "According to the Hindu system, the fourth house rules
the mother." Will you please make this clear to
A STUDENT.
SrR,-1 notice your correspondent's remarks on "Exaltations," but I

cannot see that the "apple pie order" he speaks of is particularly prominent
in his system. He exalts I§ in n because, he says, that the exaltation should
be in trine to the house; but he forgets that, by his arrangement, ? is left
with only one house Vj', and is exalted in ~. in square to Vj', Not much of the
apple pie here !
Then, adopting the suggestion that I§ has sympathy with ~ , and
Wwith ? , he actually exalts Win 111., If W is a "spiritual Venus," it must
be sadly out of place in such a sign as Scorpio, the detriment of Venus and its
worst position. Where has the apple pie gone to now ?
Nobody seems to have suggested that if the I§ ~ and W ? theory has
anything in it, I§ must be strong in ~he houses and exaltation of ~ , n nJ!.:::::;
and Win those of ? , 8 ~ *· This would explain why I§ seems well placed
in n and:::::, and Win *• as many astrologers seem to think.
I still adhere to Ptolemy's arrangement of houses.
"LEO."
DEARSrR,-ln talking with those interested in Astrology, have noticed

confusion of opinion as to the relative power of aspects to ~ and P. planets,
some supposing the former to be the more powerful. My own experience shows
that aspects of the })to ~ positions are powerful upon the mind, and things,
and persons lying at the radix of one's life. For example,}) P. D 0 ~-my father
dangerously ill. }) P. L 7 ~. while at the same moment ? P. D M.C. and
? P. L ? ~, I suffered a day of inexplicable mental and nervous depression and
torment; but no outward occurrence took place except very slight indisposition
of wife.
On the other hand, }) P L ? P. has just given me a severe and persistent
cold, but scarceiy any mental anxiety. )) P D erP. at an earlier date gave me
a sharp feverish illness, with very high temperature (roj 0 ).
I have a little boy who has cf o I§ in ~ in second house, and}) L erand
1§, He is always having accidents-knocked down by a cab, fell with a tin
between his teeth in such a way that one tooth was drawn clean out as though
with forceps, and lay on the floor, knocks and bruises innumerable. He
is the very incarnation of self-will.
Would it not be well to treat of the Epochal Figure ancl its relation to
the Natus? I have noticed in several instances that while certain aspects
in the E. F. are very suggestive and throw light on the life experience, that
Figure cannot be judged by the ordinary rules. Thus, when read by the rules
which apply to the natus, the E. F. will not answer (say) questions as to
-marriage, &c. For example, }) t,. I§ in 8 in my natus points out and exactly
describes my wife; but I cannot find her in the E. F. To what extent then
has the E. F. a relation to one's subjective or objective life, and how must it
be judged?
You are doubtless familiar with Simmonite's Solar Figures. I cannot find
that it is particularly valuable for yearly judgments, but have found it highly
valuable for monthly readings. To set up a figure, I take the number of
degrees of 0 ~. and set the figure for the moment the 0 (in ephemeral
motion) reaches that number of degrees in the sign it passes through during
any given month. Thus my 0 ~ is llJ1.8.30. To erect for April, 1894, find
time 0 reaches 'Y'8.30 ; set up figure for that time, and compare with ~ map.
Sincerely yours,
G. H. L.
LBTTBRS TO THE EDITOR,
DEARS1R,-Do you attach importance to transits over the radical Sun and
Moon, and, if so, is it only the superior planets which should be considered ?
The A. M. advises us to notice those whose birthdays are on June 1stthis year.
Will the conjunction of 2f.and 1!1 influence those whose birthdays are a day
different, say the :md ?
Again, page 262 teaches that the April eclipse operated on both the
radical Mars and Venus of the Queen, the latter being a "pleasant event."
How can an eclipse produce good ? This point is not explained in this article,
which speaks as if it were an ordinary lunation.
Raphael's Guide, p. 74, vol. i., says that friendship and enmity between
the sexes depend on the aspects of J and ? in their nativities. I have lately
tested above a score of such cases, and they would lead me to infer that any
aspect between J and ? leads to liking.
What is your opinion ?
Yours sincerely,
AMATEUR.
ANNOUNCEMENT.
\Vith this number, Vol. IV. of the Astrologers'. Magazine is
completed, and another milestone on our earthly pilgrimage is
reached. Asrael has removed several of our old subscribers, but others
have taken their places, and thus it will ever be. Vol. V. will
commence with our next number, and we would take this opportunity
of thanking our old subscribers for their past sympathy and support,
and also ask for not only a continuance of their subscription, but to use
their best endeavours to each obtain one new subscriber. We don't
ask for much, we only ask each subscriber to introduce one. If each of
our readers were to do this, the old science would be more widely
extended, and a fresh impetus be given to it. The new volume will
appeal to the general public, as well as the advanced student, and we
have no doubt that it will not only be ~iriteresting, but instructive.
Hindu Astrology will be closely investigated. "Leo's" admirable
death-figures will be continued. " Alan Leo" will investigate the
directions that .produce marriage. The "Students' Corner," by
" Raphael," will be continued ; whilst " Sepharial " and "Aphorel "
will contribute as hitherto.
"Sepharial '·' is now engaged in the completion of the " Degrees of
the Zodiac Symbolized"; and w;ll thereafter take up the subject of
I
"Hindu Astrology," and will give a complete exposition of the system
..
of Parashara based upon the lunar Asterisms •
The horoscopes of Annie Besant and Col. Olcott were cast _ by
"Sepharial," and we reprinted them from the Theosophist.

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A WORK DEALING SOLELY WITH ALL BRANCHES OF

PRICE: SIX SHILLINGS AND SIXPENCE.

PUBLISHED BY THE PROPRIETORS, 12, Lt1GARD ROAD, LONDON, S.E.

No. 37. ~~\~ * AUGUST, 1893. * Price4d. Post free4id.

A FEW remarks on issuing the first number of the fourth volume

Beginners will find something useful on page of cover facing

]Prognosticationsbaaebupon tbe 1RultngStgn.

P ERSONS born under this zodiacal sign are reserved, dis-

On June 9th, Ford's Theatre, Washington, which had been used

August nth, 1893: 8 h.48m.,p.m.

F ROM the positions in the figure _forthe lunation given above,

I N our pilgrimage through life we come across those who have

O F all the difficult subjects hitherto presented to astrological

The following is the outcome of a very careful investigation

I HA VE pleasure in presenting the nativity of my colleague known

him patience and perseverance with good judgment. He is

In the N atus. In the Epoch.

W E are indebted to our correspondent Mars L.R .C.P. for the

near the Sun signifies the occupation of the deceased, in govern-

V ERY little information is published, and still less -known to

by the lagnam. It is somewhat curious, however, that the signs

As predicted on page 276, the twelfth house and matters in con-

A serious explosion took place in the Midlands on July 4th, and

"SEASON" INFLUENCEs.-These are the positions formed by Mars

curious relation to weather and weather theories as to be worth

The progress of the Home Rule Bill through committee having

On page 257, in reference to the lunation, we predicted "Saturn

On June 25th, about 0-10 a.m., a woman of the" unfortunate"

So Palmistry has at last been declared illegal. At all events,

Judging by the above, the authorities seem to be seeking" fields

JONAHIN THE BELLYOF THE WHALE:-This is an absurdity when

DEAR Srn,-A few months ago there was some discussion in

DEAR Srn,-1 thank " Leo" for his explanation. Respecting

Srn,-It strikes me very forcibly your correspondent in June Maga-

AMATEUR.-ln erecting horoscopes for foreign parts, you must first

relatives of the father are not favourable. The native has

ASTROLOGICAL students have been waiting for some

sider it our duty to expose astrological fraud, either in the act or

I T may be within the recollection of our readers, that Dr. E. E.

and doctors who have made mental diseases a speciality, that

N UMBER two was one of the greatest perverters of the

U NTIL debarred through want of space I intend giving three

~"' 0 ~ / ~--~------F-1_o_u_R_E_V--.--~----..... ~<8

No. II.-" ALAN LEO."

T HE subject of our horoscope, whose nom de plume is known

The whole career has been emblematical of the planet Uranus.

The first number of Mr. Stead's quarterly, Borderland,contains; we

THE CORRECT TIME TO SET A MAP.

T HE only correct and reliable time to set a figure is when an

magazine, when referring to

The houses of the luminaries, Mars, Venus, and Mercury,

B UT it is riot the mere existence of this celestial machinery

ing the solid mass of a planet-acting upon the light gaseous

In this magazine for last December, we gave the Right Hon.·

DEAR Srn,-Our friend "Sepharial's" memory is a little to fault.

Bstrologers' Maga3ine. [COPYRIGHT].

T HE notions as to the personal characteristics of an Astrologer